Altinum

== Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain: According to Alessio-De Giovanni, the name derives from a Mediterranean pre-IE substrate *alt (“swamp”) Comparable with Altaenus in Apulia, from a dental extension *alt- of Proto-Italic *alō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi (“grow, nourish”), making it a doublet of altus (“tall, high”). This is supported by Pokorny and Frisk. According to Duridanov, the extension *alt- is from Proto-Indo-European *ol-to (“flooded”), from *el- (“to flow”). === Proper noun === Altīnum n sg (genitive Altīnī); second declension a city of Venetia situated near the mouth of the river Silis, on a marshy area ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. === References === “Altinum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Altinum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959. G. CRESCI - M. TIRELLI, Altino romana attraverso l'obbietivo fotografico di Alessio De Bon, in Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia 26, 2016, 77-84 Eos: commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum, Volumes 68-69 "Altino," Antonio Sciarretta's Toponymy