Olisipo

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ulisippō, Olisippō, Olysippō, Ulysippō, Olysīpō

Etymology

Unknown origin, possibly from (likely Tartessian) word for the Tagus, via Phoenician. Some spelling variants are due to the folk etymology connecting the name of the town with Ulixēs/Ulyssēs (“Odysseus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.liˈsiː.poː/, [ɔlʲɪˈs̠iːpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.liˈsi.po/, [oliˈs̬iːpo]

Proper noun

Olisīpō f sg or m sg (genitive Olisīpōnis); third declension

1. Lisbon (a city in modern Portugal)

Usage notes

• The gender is unattested. Some dictionaries list this words as masculine (Lewis and Short, Gaffiot) and some as feminine (Kraft and Forbiger, Oxford Latin Dictionary).

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Olisīpō
Genitive	Olisīpōnis
Dative	Olisīpōnī
Accusative	Olisīpōnem
Ablative	Olisīpōne
Vocative	Olisīpō
Locative	Olisīpōnī Olisīpōne

Derived terms

• olisīpōnēnsis

Descendants

• Portuguese: Olisipo, Olissipo (borrowings)
• Vulgar Latin: Olisipona
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Lisbõa, Lixbõa
    • Galician: Lisboa
    • Mirandese: Lisboua
    • Portuguese: Lisboa
    • Spanish: Lisboa
  • Old Spanish: Ulixbona

References

• “Olisipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Olisipo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Olisīpō” on page 1246 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Friedrich Karl Kraft and M. Albert Forbiger, Neues deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, Leipzig, 1826, page 1403 (in an appendix of geographical names entitled "Geographischer Anhang"): "Liſſabon, (Lisboa), Olissipo (Ulisippo, Olisipo), onis, f. Plin. Lisbona."

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Olisipo f

1. Alternative form of Olissipo