apogaeum

• apogēum

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πόγειον (ăpógeion).

apogaeum n (genitive apogaeī); second declension

1. (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) apogee

Du Cange (see reference) records one use in Medieval Latin, believed to be a scribal error for hypogaeum.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• apogēus

• → Esperanto: apogeo
• → Italian: apogeo
• → Middle French: apogée
  • French: apogée
  • → English: apogee, apogée
• → Spanish: apogeo

apogaeum

1. inflection of apogaeus:
   1. nominative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular
2. accusative/vocative neuter singular of apogaēus

• "apogaeum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)