Agyrium
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Ἀγύριον (Agúrion), whence also the name of its tyrant, Ἄγυρις (Águris).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈɡy.ri.um/, [äˈɡʏriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈd͡ʒi.ri.um/, [äˈd͡ʒiːrium]
Proper noun[edit]
Agyrium n sg (genitive Agyriī or Agyrī); second declension
- Agira/San Filippo d'Argiriò, a former Sicel city near Enna, Sicily later colonized by the Greeks before its occupation by the Romans, birthplace of Diodorus Siculus
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Agyrium |
Genitive | Agyriī Agyrī1 |
Dative | Agyriō |
Accusative | Agyrium |
Ablative | Agyriō |
Vocative | Agyrium |
Locative | Agyriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: Agira
References[edit]
- “Agȳrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Agyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Agyrium” on page 101/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)