promunturium

Latin

Alternative forms

• prōmontorium

Etymology

From the same root as prōmineō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proː.munˈtu.ri.um/, [proːmʊn̪ˈt̪ʊriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.munˈtu.ri.um/, [promun̪ˈt̪uːrium]

Noun

prōmunturium n (genitive prōmunturiī or prōmunturī); second declension

1. peak; highest part of a mountain chain.
2. cape, headland, promontory

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōmunturium	prōmunturia
Genitive	prōmunturiī prōmunturī1	prōmunturiōrum
Dative	prōmunturiō	prōmunturiīs
Accusative	prōmunturium	prōmunturia
Ablative	prōmunturiō	prōmunturiīs
Vocative	prōmunturium	prōmunturia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: promontori
• English: promontory
• French: promontoire
• Galician: promontorio
• Italian: promontorio
• Portuguese: promontório
• Spanish: promontorio

References

• “promunturium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “promunturium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• promunturium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • to double a cape: promunturium superare
    
  • to double an island, cape: superare insulam, promunturium