Amorium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Amorion === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ἀ̆μόρῐον (Ămórĭon). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈmɔ.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈmɔː.ri.um] === Proper noun === Amorium n sg (genitive Amoriī or Amorī); second declension (historical) Amorium, Amorion (a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor), legendary birthplace of Aesop, growing into significance in the Hellenistic and Byzantine eras until destroyed by the Arab Sack of Amorium in 838; home of the famed 42 Martyrs of Amorium executed for refusing to submit to Islam in 845; now in modern-day Turkey ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== English: Amorium === References === “Amorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.