Gordium

English

Etymology

From Latin Gordium, from Ancient Greek Γόρδιον (Górdion).

Proper noun

Gordium

  1. An ancient city in Phrygia, modern day Turkey.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Γόρδιον (Górdion).

Proper noun

Gordium n sg (genitive Gordiī or Gordī); second declension

  1. The capital city of ancient Phrygia in present-day Turkey.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

singular
nominative Gordium
genitive Gordiī
Gordī1
dative Gordiō
accusative Gordium
ablative Gordiō
vocative Gordium

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

References

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