Dyrrhachium

From Latin Dyrrhachium. Doublet of Durrës and Durazzo.

Dyrrhachium

1. (historical) Synonym of Durrës (“a city in Albania”).

• Dyrrachium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δυρράχιον (Durrhákhion).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dyrˈrʰa.kʰi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪irˈraː.ki.um]

Dyrrhachium n sg (genitive Dyrrhachiī or Dyrrhachī); second declension

1. Dyrrhachium (a city on the coast of Illyricum, now called Durrës)

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

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

• Dyrrhachīnī

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