Danubius

Latin

Alternative forms

• Dānuvius

The river in Budapest

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, either from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”) or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“run, flow”).

Proper noun

Dānubius m sg (genitive Dānubiī or Dānubī); second declension

1. Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2,850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine, into the Black Sea)
   • Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation)

     Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus.

     Germany is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia, and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Dānubius
genitive	Dānubiī Dānubī1
dative	Dānubiō
accusative	Dānubium
ablative	Dānubiō
vocative	Dānubī

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

Descendants

All descendants are borrowings.

• Arabic: دَانُوب (dānūb)
• Catalan: Danubi
• Old French: Danube
  • Middle French: Danube
    • French: Danube
  • → English: Danube (see there for further descendants)
• Hebrew: דנובה (danuba)
• Italian: Danubio
• Persian:

  Dari: دَانُوب (dānūb)

  Iranian Persian: دانوب (dânub)

• Portuguese: Danúbio
• Romanian: Danubiu
• Spanish: Danubio