Paraetonium

From Ancient Greek Παραιτόνιον (Paraitónion).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.rae̯ˈtɔ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.reˈt̪ɔː.ni.um]

Paraetonium n sg (genitive Paraetoniī or Paraetonī); second declension

1. Mersa Matruh (a port city in modern Egypt)

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

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

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