Mogontiacum
Latin
Alternative forms
- Mogontiacus, Moguntiacum
- Magontiacum (doubtful in Classical Latin)
- Maguntia (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
From a Celtic name of the god Mogons (compare Gaulish Moguntia[1]), from Proto-Celtic *mogonts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔ.ɡɔn.tiˈaː.kũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mo.ɡon.t̪͡s̪iˈaː.kum]
Proper noun
Mogontiācum n sg (genitive Mogontiācī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Mogontiācum |
| genitive | Mogontiācī |
| dative | Mogontiācō |
| accusative | Mogontiācum |
| ablative | Mogontiācō |
| vocative | Mogontiācum |
| locative | Mogontiācī |
Descendants
Descendants
- Aragonese: Maganza
- Catalan: Magúncia
- French: Mayence
- → Esperanto: Majenco
- → Japanese: マイエンス (Maiensu)
- → Occitan: Maiança
- Italian: Magonza
- Portuguese: Mogúncia
- Sicilian: Magunza, Magonza
- Spanish: Maguncia
- → Czech: Mohuč
- → Old High German: Maginza, Meginza
- → Greek: Μαγεντία (Magentía)
- → Limburgish: Meind
- → Polish: Moguncja
References
- “Mogontiacum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Mogontiacum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mogu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
- ^ Koch, J.T. (2005:1300) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia ABC-CLIO Ltd