Metellinum

Named after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who founded it as a military base for his operations in western Iberia, during the Sertorian War.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.tɛlˈliː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.t̪elˈliː.num]

Metellīnum n sg (genitive Metellīnī); second declension

1. A town of Lusitania on the Anas, now Medellín

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

• Metellinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Metellinum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly