Ticinus

== Latin == === Etymology === The name could have meant "the runner," from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ-ino-s, from *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tiːˈkiː.nʊs], [tɪˈkiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tiˈt͡ʃiː.nus] Note: the first syllable is short once in Carmina by Sidonius Apollinaris. === Proper noun === Tī̆cīnus m sg (genitive Tī̆cīnī); second declension The Ticino river. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Ticino → Ancient Greek: Τῐ́κῑνος (Tĭ́kīnos), Τῑκῖνος (Tīkînos) === References === “Ticinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Ticinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Ticinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly