Actium

From Latin Actium, from Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.ti.əm/

Actium

1. A promontory in Acarnania in Ancient Greece where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in a naval battle in 31 B.C.

From Ancient Greek Ἄκτιον (Áktion).

Actium n sg (genitive Actiī or Actī); second declension

1. Actium (a town and promontory in Acarnania and site of a famous naval battle)

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

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

• “Actium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Actium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Actium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Áccio

Actium m

1. Actium (a promontory in Greece, the site of an ancient battle)