Caelius mons

• Caelius

Either from:

• caelius (“of the sky”, otherwise only seen as nomen gentile) +‎ mons;
• or, according to Varro,^[1] from Caelius Vibenna (also known as Caeles), an Etruscan hero who helped Romulus in his war against the Sabini's king, Titus Tatius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkae̯.li.ʊs ˈmõːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.li.us ˈmɔns]

Caelius mons m sg (genitive Caeliī montis); third declension

1. the Caelian Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome

   Coordinate terms: Aventīnus mons, Capitōlium (Capitōlīnus mons), Esquilīnus mons (Esquiliae), Palātium (Palātīnus mons), Quirinālis collis, Viminālis collis

Second-declension adjective with a third-declension noun, singular only.

• Caeliculus
• Caeliolus

• English: Esquiline
• French: Esquilin
• Italian: Esquilino

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