Samnium

Samnium

2. (historical) An ancient region of southern Italy.

• Samnian
• Samnite

• numisma

From Proto-Italic *saβnjom. Cognate with Oscan Safinim.

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

Samnium n sg (genitive Samniī or Samnī); second declension

1. (historical) Samnium (an ancient region of southern Italy)

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

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

• Samnīs, Samnītis
• Samnitēs
• Samnīticus

• Italian: Sannio

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