Patavium

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly connected to the river Padus, or formed from pateo (“I increase or extend (frontiers)”), or borrowed from Gaulish *padi (“pines”), cognate with padi (“pitch pines”).[1]

Proper noun

Patavium n sg (genitive Pataviī or Patavī); second declension

  1. Padua (a city in Italy)

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Patavium
Genitive Pataviī
Patavī1
Dative Pataviō
Accusative Patavium
Ablative Pataviō
Vocative Patavium
Locative Pataviī

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

References
  • “Patavium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Patavium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Everett-Heath, J. (2000): Place Names of the World - Europe: Historical Context, Meanings and Changes, p. 167
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