Iguvium

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Īguvium, itself from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium). === Proper noun === Iguvium Gubbio (a city in Umbria). ==== Derived terms ==== Iguvine ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Umbrian 𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (ikuvium), of uncertain origin; possibly from *𐌐𐌉𐌊𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌖𐌌 (*pikuvium, “town of the woodpecker”), with loss of initial P, from 𐌐𐌄𐌉𐌊𐌀 (peika, “woodpecker”) << Proto-Italic *peikā << Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk-. However, it could instead be from a pre-Etruscan, pre-Umbrian substrate (eastern Italic); compare Igilium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [iːˈɡʊ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iˈɡuː.vi.um] === Proper noun === Īguvium n sg (genitive Īguviī or Īguvī); second declension Gubbio (a city in Umbria) Synonym: (medieval) Eugubium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Īguvīnātes Īguvīnī ==== Descendants ==== → English: Iguvium Italian: Gubbio === References === “Iguvium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Iguvium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.