Messapii

English

Noun

Messapii pl (plural only)

1. The Messapians.

Latin

Etymology

According to Pokorny, the Messapic name means "amid waters," from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos + *h₂ep-, the latter of which gave their region Apulia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.iː/, [mɛs̠ˈs̠äpiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mesˈsa.pi.i/, [mesˈsäːpiː]

Proper noun

Messapiī m pl (genitive Messapiōrum); second declension

1. An Iapygian tribe that was settled in modern Apulia.

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Messapiī
Genitive	Messapiōrum
Dative	Messapiīs
Accusative	Messapiōs
Ablative	Messapiīs
Vocative	Messapiī
Locative	Messapiīs

References

• de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN