Brundisium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from a Messapic word for the head of a male deer, possibly based on the shape of the port.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /brunˈdi.si.um/, [brʊn̪ˈd̪ɪs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /brunˈdi.si.um/, [brun̪ˈd̪iːs̬ium]

Proper noun

Brundisium n sg (genitive Brundisiī or Brundisī); second declension

  1. Brindisi (a city in southern Italy)

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Brundisium
Genitive Brundisiī
Brundisī1
Dative Brundisiō
Accusative Brundisium
Ablative Brundisiō
Vocative Brundisium
Locative Brundisiī

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

Descendants
  • Italian: Brindisi
  • Neapolitan: Brinnese
    Tarantino: Brinnese
  • Sicilian: Brìnnisi, Brìndisi

References
  • “Brundisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Brundisium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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