Olisipo

• Ulisippō, Olisippō, Olysippō, Ulysippō, Olysīpō

Unknown origin, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (likely Tartessian) word for the Tagus, via Phoenician. Some spelling variants are due to the folk etymology connecting the name of the town with Ulixēs/Ulyssēs (“Odysseus”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.liˈsiː.poː/, [ɔ.lɪˈsiː.poː]

Olisīpō f, m (genitive Olisīpōnis); third declension

1. Lisbon (city in modern Portugal)

• The gender is unattested. Some dictionaries list this words as masculine (Lewis and Short, Gaffiot) and some as feminine (Kraft and Forbiger, Oxford Latin Dictionary).

Third declension, with locative.

• olisīpōnēnsis

• Portuguese: Olisipo, Olissipo (borrowings)
• Vulgar Latin: Olisipona
  • Old Portuguese: Lisbõa, Lixbõa
    • Galician: Lisboa
    • Mirandese: Lisboua
    • Portuguese: Lisboa
    • Spanish: Lisboa
  • Old Spanish: Ulixbona

• Olisipo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Olisipo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “Olisīpō” on page 1246 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Friedrich Karl Kraft and M. Albert Forbiger, Neues deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, Leipzig, 1826, page 1403 (in an appendix of geographical names entitled "Geographischer Anhang"): "Liſſabon, (Lisboa), Olissipo (Ulisippo, Olisipo), onis, f. Plin. Lisbona."

Olisipo f

1. Alternative form of Olissipo