Arpinum

Latin

Etymology

According to DNGI, probably from a personal name hinted by the common name suffix -inum. Probably of Eastern Italic origin, perhaps from a name ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (something bent, arrow) and showing the Oscan and Volscian shift kw > p. The root could instead be *h₂erk- (to lock, guard).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Arpīnum n sg (genitive Arpīnī); second declension

  1. an ancient city of the Volscians, situated on a hill above the valley of the Liris and birthplace of Cicero, now Arpino

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Arpīnum
Genitive Arpīnī
Dative Arpīnō
Accusative Arpīnum
Ablative Arpīnō
Vocative Arpīnum
Locative Arpīnī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Arpino

References

  • Arpinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Arpinum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Arpinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 25
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