Numitor

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊ.mɪ.toːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.mi.tor]

Proper noun

Numitōr m sg (genitive Numitōris); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) a legendary king of Alba Longa, son of Procas, father of Rhea Silvia and Laurus, grandfather of Romulus and Remus, brother of Amulius by whom he was overthrown.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 6.767–770:

     proximus ille Procās, Trojānae glōria gentis
     et Capys et Numitōr et quī tē nōmine reddet
     Silvius Aenēās, pariter pietāte vel armīs
     ēgregius, si umquam rēgnandam accēperit Albam.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Numitōr
genitive	Numitōris
dative	Numitōrī
accusative	Numitōrem
ablative	Numitōre
vocative	Numitōr

Derived terms

• Numitōrius

References

• “Numitor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Numitor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Numitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press