ianiculum

• iāniculus

Derived from the name of the Roman deity Iānus (“Janus”), from iānus (“arcade, covered passageway”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [jaːˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [jaˈniː.ku.lum]

iāniculum n (genitive iāniculī); second declension

1. The Janiculum hill in Rome.

• Often capitalized.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• English: Janiculum
• Italian: Gianicolo

• “ianiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ianiculum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press