Balesium

Latin

Etymology

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Proper noun

Balesium n sg (genitive Balesiī or Balesī); second declension

1. a town in interior Calabria situated between Lupiae and Brundisium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Balesium
genitive	Balesiī Balesī1
dative	Balesiō
accusative	Balesium
ablative	Balesiō
vocative	Balesium
locative	Balesiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “Balesium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Balesium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.