Esquiliae

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Aesquiliae Ēxquiliae === Etymology === Perhaps either: related to inquilīnus (see also Esquilīnus), from *eks +‎ *kʷe/ilō (Latin colō) +‎ *-jā, with cluster simplification /eksk/ → /esk/ as seen in escendō; according to the legend the district was later added to Rome by the king Servius Tullius (Liv.I.44) to cope with the evergrowing flow of new Roman subjects; it would then mean: "the district of sojourners (or dwellers), once foreigners, living outside the city (pre-Servian Wall)". Or, from aesculus (“a kind of oak”), compare Viminālis mons (literally “willow, osier hill”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eːsˈkʷɪ.li.ae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [esˈkʷiː.li.e] === Proper noun === Ēsquiliae f pl (genitive Ēsquiliārum); first declension a district in Rome situated on the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome the Esquiline Hill Synonym: Esquilīnus mons ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, plural only. ==== Derived terms ==== Esquilīnus Esquilīnus mons === References === === Further reading === “Esquiliae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Esquiliae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.