Vesuvius

English

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Vesuvius

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Vesuvy (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Latin Vesuvius, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vəˈsu.vi.əs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Ve‧su‧vi‧us

Proper noun

Vesuvius

1. A volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy.
   • 1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 577:

     Hecla bellowed until the Icelanders feared a cataclysm. Vesuvius blew its head off.

Derived terms

• Vesuvian

Related terms

• vesuvin

Translations

volcano in Italy

Arabic: فِيزُوف m (fizūf) Armenian: Վեզուվ (Vezuv) Bulgarian: Везу́вий m (Vezúvij) Catalan: Vesuvi m Chinese: Mandarin: 維蘇威火山 / 维苏威火山 (Wéisūwēi huǒshān) Czech: Vesuv Danish: Vesuv Dutch: Vesuvius Esperanto: Vezuvio Estonian: Vesuuv Finnish: Vesuvius (fi) French: Vésuve (fr) m Galician: Vesuvio m Georgian: ვეზუვი (vezuvi) German: Vesuv (de) m Greek: Βεζούβιος (el) m (Vezoúvios) Hungarian: Vezúv (hu) Irish: Veasúiv f Italian: Vesuvio m Japanese: ヴェスヴィオ (Vesuvio), ヴェスヴィオ火山 (Vesuvio-kazan), ベスビオ火山 (Besubio-kazan) Latin: Vesuvius m Latvian: Vezuvs m Lithuanian: Vezuvijus m Macedonian: Везув m (Vezuv) Norwegian: Vesuv Polish: Wezuwiusz (pl) m Portuguese: Vesúvio m Romanian: Vezuviu m Russian: Везу́вий (ru) m (Vezúvij) Spanish: Vesubio m Swedish: Vesuvius Turkish: Vezüv

Noun

Vesuvius (plural Vesuviuses)

1. A kind of firework supposed to resemble a volcano eruption.

Latin

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Vesuvius

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Alternative forms

	-vi-	-v-	-bi-	-b-
Vesu-	Vesuvius	Vesuvus	Vesubius	Vesubus
Vessu-	Vessuvius		Vessubius
Ves-	Vesvius	Vesvus	Vesbius	Vesbus
Vesē-	Vesēvius	Vesēvus	Vesēbius	Vesēbus
Vessē-		Vessēvus		Vessēbus
Vesae-	Vesaevius	Vesaevus
Vesoe-		Vesoevus

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; however, proposed derivations include:

• Latin vē- +‎ Ancient Greek σβέ(ννῡμῐ) (sbé(nnūmĭ), “to be quenched; to go out”)
• Oscan 𐌚𐌄𐌔𐌚 (fesf, “steam; smoke”)
• Proto-Celtic *ves (“mountain”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛˈsʊ.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈs̬uː.vi.us]

Proper noun

Vesuvius m sg (genitive Vesuviī or Vesuvī); second declension

1. Vesuvius, a volcano in Campania

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vesuvius
genitive	Vesuviī Vesuvī1
dative	Vesuviō
accusative	Vesuvium
ablative	Vesuviō
vocative	Vesuvī

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

Derived terms

• vesuvīnus

Descendants

• French: Vésuve
• Italian: Vesuvio
• Portuguese: Vesúvio
• Romanian: Vezuviu
• Sicilian: Visuvi
• Spanish: Vesubio
• → English: Vesuvius
• → Polish: Wezuwiusz
• → Russian: Везу́вий (Vezúvij)
  • → Armenian: Վեզուվ (Vezuv)

See also

• Campānia

References

• “Vĕsŭvĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Vĕsŭvĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,668/1.