Iguvium

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Īguvium, itself from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium).

Proper noun

Iguvium

1. Gubbio (a city in Umbria).

Derived terms

• Iguvine

Translations

Translations

 

• Italian: Gubbio f
• Latin: Īguvium n, Eugubium n

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium), of uncertain origin; possibly from *𐌐𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (*pikuvium, “town of the woodpecker”), with loss of initial P, from 𐌐𐌄𐌉𐌊𐌀 (peika, “woodpecker”) << Proto-Italic *peikā << Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk-.

However, it could instead be from a pre-Etruscan, pre-Umbrian substrate (eastern Italic); compare Igilium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iːˈɡʊ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈɡuː.vi.um]

Proper noun

Īguvium n sg (genitive Īguviī or Īguvī); second declension

1. Gubbio (a city in Umbria)

   Synonym: (medieval) Eugubium

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Īguvium
genitive	Īguviī Īguvī1
dative	Īguviō
accusative	Īguvium
ablative	Īguviō
vocative	Īguvium
locative	Īguviī

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

Derived terms

• Īguvīnātes
• Īguvīnī

Descendants

• → English: Iguvium
• Italian: Gubbio

References

• “Iguvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Iguvium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.