Cumae

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Cūmae, from Ancient Greek Κύμη (Kúmē). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkjuːmi/ Rhymes: -uːmi === Proper noun === Cumae An ancient Greek, and then Roman, settlement near Naples famed for its sibyl. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κύμη (Kúmē, “Cumae”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.mae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkuː.me] === Proper noun === Cūmae f pl (genitive Cūmārum); first declension Cumae vocative of Cūmae ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, plural only. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: Cumae French: Cumes ==== See also ==== Avernus Sibylla === References === “Cumae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cumae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Cumae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Cumae”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press “Cumae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly