Verulamium

From Latin Verulamium, the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.

Verulamium

1. (historical) A town in Britannia, Roman Empire. An ancient town in Roman Britain, sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
   • 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 26:

     The first Christian martyr in Britain was called Alban. He lived in the town called Verulamium.

• Verulam

• Verulamium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Of Celtic/Brythonic origin, reconstructed as *Uerulāmion, from Proto-Brythonic *Uerulāmos (“of the broad hand”) (compare *ɸlāmā (“hand, palm”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛ.rʊˈɫa.mi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ve.ruˈlaː.mi.um]

Verulamium n sg (genitive Verulamiī or Verulamī); second declension

1. a town in Britannia, Roman Empire, now St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

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

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

• Verulamium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Verulamium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly