Aventinus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Said by Servius to derive from avis on account of the many birds who roosted there.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Aventīnus m sg (genitive Aventīnī); second declension

  1. The Aventine Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome.
  2. (Roman mythology) A mythological king of Alba Longa, son of Romulus Silvius, father of Procas, great-great-grandfather of Romulus and Remus

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Aventīnus
Genitive Aventīnī
Dative Aventīnō
Accusative Aventīnum
Ablative Aventīnō
Vocative Aventīne
Locative Aventīnī

Descendants
  • English: Aventine
  • Italian: Aventino

References
  1. Commentary on the Aeneid of Virgil https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053&layout=&loc=7.657
  • Aventinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Aventinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • “Aventinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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