confinium
Latin
Etymology
From cōnfīnis (“bordering on, adjoining”) + -ium.
Noun
cōnfīnium n (genitive cōnfīniī or cōnfīnī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
| genitive | cōnfīniī cōnfīnī1 |
cōnfīniōrum |
| dative | cōnfīniō | cōnfīniīs |
| accusative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
| ablative | cōnfīniō | cōnfīniīs |
| vocative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- → Welsh: cyffin
References
- “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "confinium", 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)
- confinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.