Ticinus

Latin

Etymology

The name could have meant "the runner," from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ-ino-s, from *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”).[1]

Proper noun

Tīcīnus m sg (genitive Tīcīnī); second declension

  1. The Ticino river.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Tīcīnus
genitive Tīcīnī
dative Tīcīnō
accusative Tīcīnum
ablative Tīcīnō
vocative Tīcīne

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Τίκινος (Tíkinos)
  • Italian: Ticino

References

  • “Ticinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ticinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Ticinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. ^ L'onomastica dell'Italia antica: aspetti linguistici, storici, culturali, tipologici e classificatori. (2009). Italy: École fran-caise de Rome, p. 164
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