Iguvium

Learned borrowing from Latin Īguvium, itself from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium).

Iguvium

1. Gubbio (a city in Umbria).

• Iguvine

Borrowed from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium), of uncertain origin; possibly from *𐌐𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (*pikuvium, “town of the woodpecker”), with loss of initial P, from 𐌐𐌄𐌉𐌊𐌀 (peika, “woodpecker”) << Proto-Italic *peikā << Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk-.

However, it could instead be from a pre-Etruscan, pre-Umbrian substrate (eastern Italic); compare Igilium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iːˈɡʊ.wi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈɡuː.vi.um]

Īguvium n sg (genitive Īguviī or Īguvī); second declension

1. Gubbio (a city in Umbria)

   Synonym: (medieval) Eugubium

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

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

• Īguvīnātes
• Īguvīnī

• → English: Iguvium
• Italian: Gubbio

• “Iguvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Iguvium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.