Cantium

== Latin == === Etymology === From Brythonic *Cantio, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkan.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkan.t͡si.um] === Proper noun === Cantium n sg (genitive Cantiī or Cantī); second declension a promontory in England (now Kent) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Cantius (given name) ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: Canzio → Old English: CentMiddle English: Kent, Kente, KenttEnglish: Kent === References === “Cantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cantium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.