Verulamium

English

Etymology

From Latin Verulamium, the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.

Proper noun

Verulamium

1. (historical) A town in Britannia, Roman Empire. An ancient town in Roman Britain, sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
   • 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 26:

     The first Christian martyr in Britain was called Alban. He lived in the town called Verulamium.

See also

• Verulam

Further reading

• Verulamium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯e.ruˈla.mi.um/, [u̯ɛrʊˈɫ̪ämiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.ruˈla.mi.um/, [veruˈläːmium]

Proper noun

Verulamium n sg (genitive Verulamiī or Verulamī); second declension

1. A town in Britannia, Roman Empire, now St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

Declension

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Verulamium
Genitive	Verulamiī Verulamī1
Dative	Verulamiō
Accusative	Verulamium
Ablative	Verulamiō
Vocative	Verulamium
Locative	Verulamiī

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

References

• Verulamium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Verulamium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly