Brundisium

Latin

Alternative forms

• Brundusium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from a Messapic word for the head of a male deer, possibly based on the shape of the port.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /brunˈdi.si.um/, [brʊn̪ˈd̪ɪs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /brunˈdi.si.um/, [brun̪ˈd̪iːs̬ium]

Proper noun

Brundisium n sg (genitive Brundisiī or Brundisī); second declension

1. Brindisi (a city in southern Italy)

Declension

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Brundisium
Genitive	Brundisiī Brundisī1
Dative	Brundisiō
Accusative	Brundisium
Ablative	Brundisiō
Vocative	Brundisium
Locative	Brundisiī

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

Descendants

• Italian: Brindisi
• Neapolitan: Brinnese

  Tarantino: Brinnese

• Sicilian: Brìnnisi, Brìndisi

References

• “Brundisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Brundisium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.