Morgantia

• Murgantia, Murgentia, Morgantium, Morgentia

From Ancient Greek Μοργάντιον (Morgántion), Μοργαντίνη (Morgantínē), identified by Strabo as a pre-Roman Italic tribe. The name could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔrˈɡan.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [morˈɡan.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Morgantia f sg (genitive Morgantiae); first declension

1. a city in interior Sicily, situated near Catana
2. a city in Samnium, now Baselice

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Murgentīnī
• Murgentīnus
• Murgantius, Murgantius

• “Murgantĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Morgantia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Murgantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft. (1940). Germany: O. R. Reisland, p. 44
• Strabo, Geographica 6.1.6