Mattium

== Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmat.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmat.ti.um] === Proper noun === Mattium n sg (genitive Mattiī or Mattī); second declension a city on the Eder in Germania, capital of the Chatti. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include: Marburg (a university town, the district capital of Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf, State of Hesse, Germany) Maden (a village, a Stadtteil of Gudensberg, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, State of Hesse, Germany) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “Mattĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Mattium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “MATTIUM”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Mattĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 955. Mattium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 831