Rhenus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Gaulish *Rēnos (Proto-Celtic *reinos), built on Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrʰeː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɛː.nus] === Proper noun === Rhēnus m sg (genitive Rhēnī); second declension Rhine (a river) Tacitus, Gemanica, chapter 1 (Oxford revised translation) Germania omnis a Gallis Rhaetisque et Pannoniis Rheno et Danubio fluminibus. Germany is separated from Gaul, Rhaetia, and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube. Reno (a river in Italy) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Rhēnānia ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Reno Old Occitan: Ren Catalan: Ren (archaic) Occitan: Ren → Polish: Ren Romansh: Rain, Ragn, Rein === References === “Rhenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Rhenus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.