Pompeji

Borrowed from Latin Pompeji, from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”), a reference to its five districts. Doublet of cinque, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, and punch (“beverage”).

Pompeji

1. Alternative form of Pompeii: a city in Italy.

• Pompejian

• Pompeiji

From Swedish Pompeji, from Latin Pompeii.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpompeji/, [ˈpo̞mpe̞ji]
• IPA^(key): /ˈpompei̯/, [ˈpo̞mpe̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -ompeji
• Syllabification^(key): Pom‧pe‧ji
• Hyphenation^(key): Pom‧pe‧ji

Pompeji

1. Pompeii

Learned borrowing from Latin Pompeji.

Pompeji m (proper noun, strong, genitive Pompejis or Pompeji)

1. a city in Italy

• Pompeiī

Borrowed from Oscan [Term?], from Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”) +‎ -eius. A reference to the city's five districts, from Proto-Italic *kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also the gens name Pompejus and quīnque, the native word for “five”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔmˈpɛj.jiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pomˈpɛː.ji]

Pompejī m pl (genitive Pompejōrum); second declension

1. alternative spelling of Pompeii

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Pompejānī m pl (“inhabitants of Pompeji”, noun)
• Pompejānum n (“a villa of Cicero near Pompeji”, noun)
• Pompejānus (“of, belonging to Pompeji”, adjective)

• Pompejus

• Campānia, Vesuvius

Pompejī m

1. genitive singular of Pompejus

• “Pompeji”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pompeji n (genitive Pompejis)

1. Pompeii