moenia

Latin

Etymology

A plurale tantum, from Old Latin moene, from Proto-Indo-European *móyni, from *mey- (“to strengthen”). Cognate with mūrus (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoe̯.ni.a/, [ˈmoe̯niä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ni.a/, [ˈmɛːniä]

Noun

moenia n pl (genitive moenium); third declension

1. city walls, fortifications, walls

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	moenia
Genitive	moenium
Dative	moenibus
Accusative	moenia
Ablative	moenibus
Vocative	moenia

Derived terms

• mūniō

References

• “moenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields: testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
    
• “moenia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “moenia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin