Sunium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σούνιον (Soúnion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsuː.ni.um]

Proper noun

Sūnium n sg (genitive Sūniī or Sūnī); second declension

1. A promontory and town situated on the southern coast of Attica

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sūnium
genitive	Sūniī Sūnī1
dative	Sūniō
accusative	Sūnium
ablative	Sūniō
vocative	Sūnium
locative	Sūniī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “Sunium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sunium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sunium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly