Perusia

See also: Perúsia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Perusia. Doublet of Perugia.

Proper noun

Perusia

  1. (historical) An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
    • 2005, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, page 455:
      That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.
    • 2007, Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium, Oxford University Press, page 358:
      Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.126 This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;127 but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.
    • 2007, Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past, Ohio State University Press, page 95:
      The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him[Propertius] a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.

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Latin

Etymology

From Etruscan.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Perusia f sg (genitive Perusiae); first declension

  1. (historical) Perusia (An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Perusia
Genitive Perusiae
Dative Perusiae
Accusative Perusiam
Ablative Perusiā
Vocative Perusia
Locative Perusiae

Derived terms

  • Perusīnī
  • Perusīnum
  • Perusīnus

References

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