Brundisium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Brundusium === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from a Messapic word for the head of a male deer, possibly based on the shape of the port. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [brʊnˈdɪ.si.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [brunˈdiː.s̬i.um] === Proper noun === Brundisium n sg (genitive Brundisiī or Brundisī); second declension Brindisi (a city in southern Italy) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Brindisi Neapolitan: Brinnese Tarantino: Brinnese Sicilian: Brìnnisi, Brìndisi === References === “Brundisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Brundisium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.