Ortona

From Latin Ortona.

• IPA^(key): /orˈto.na/
• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: Or‧tó‧na

Ortona f

1. a town in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy

• ortonese

Ortona m or f by sense

1. a surname transferred from the place name

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

• Notaro, onrato, ornato, rotano

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔrˈtoː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈt̪ɔː.na]

Ortōna f sg (genitive Ortōnae); first declension

1. a city in Latium, situated near the borders with the territory of the Aequi
2. A town of the Frentani situated on the Adriatic coast, now Ortona

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Ortona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ortona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Ortona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.