confinium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cōnfīnis (“bordering on, adjoining”) + -ium.
Noun[edit]
cōnfīnium n (genitive cōnfīniī or cōnfīnī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
| Genitive | cōnfīniī cōnfīnī1 |
cōnfīniōrum |
| Dative | cōnfīniō | cōnfīniīs |
| Accusative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
| Ablative | cōnfīniō | cōnfīniīs |
| Vocative | cōnfīnium | cōnfīnia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Welsh: cyffin
References[edit]
- “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- confinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.