Actium

English

Etymology

From Latin Actium, from Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈæk.ti.əm/

Proper noun

Actium

  1. a promontory of Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 BC

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).

Proper noun

Actium n sg (genitive Actiī or Actī); second declension

  1. Actium (town in Epirus and site of a famous naval battle)

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Actium
Genitive Actiī
Actī1
Dative Actiō
Accusative Actium
Ablative Actiō
Vocative Actium
Locative Actiī

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

References
  • “Actium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Actium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Actium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Actium m

  1. Actium (a promontory in Greece, the site of an ancient battle)
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