Corioli

Latin

Etymology

Maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kóryos (“army”) << *ker-, giving a town a name similar to "army camp."[1][2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Coriolī m pl (genitive Coriolōrum); second declension

  1. A city of the Volsci in Latium, conquered by the legendary general Gnaeus (or Gāius) Mārcius Coriolānus.

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Coriolī
genitive Coriolōrum
dative Coriolīs
accusative Coriolōs
ablative Coriolīs
vocative Coriolī
locative Coriolīs

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ McCone, Kim R. (1987). "Hund, Wolf und Krieger bei den Indogermanen". In Meid, Wolfgang (ed.). Studien zum indogermanischen Wortschatz
  2. ^ Woodard, R. D. 2020. “Coriolanus and Fortuna Muliebris.” Japan Studies in Classical Antiquity (JASCA) 4: 24–25

Further reading

  • “Corioli”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Corioli in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Corioli”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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