Olisipo

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Ulisippō, Olisippō, Olysippō, Ulysippō, Olysīpō === Etymology === Unknown origin, possibly from a Paleo-Hispanic (likely Tartessian) word for the Tagus, via Phoenician. Some spelling variants are due to the folk etymology connecting the name of the town with Ulixēs/Ulyssēs (“Odysseus”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔ.lɪˈsiː.poː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.liˈs̬iː.po] === Proper noun === Olisīpō f sg or m sg (genitive Olisīpōnis); third declension Lisbon (a city in modern Portugal) ==== Usage notes ==== The gender is unattested. Some dictionaries list this words as masculine (Lewis and Short, Gaffiot) and some as feminine (Kraft and Forbiger, Oxford Latin Dictionary). ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== olisīpōnēnsis ==== Descendants ==== === References === “Olisipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Olisipo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Olisīpō” on page 1246 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) Friedrich Karl Kraft and M. Albert Forbiger, Neues deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, Leipzig, 1826, page 1403 (in an appendix of geographical names entitled "Geographischer Anhang"): "Liſſabon, (Lisboa), Olissipo (Ulisippo, Olisipo), onis, f. Plin. Lisbona." == Portuguese == === Proper noun === Olisipo f alternative form of Olissipo