Pompeii

See also: Pompei

English

Etymology

From Latin Pompeii.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɒmˈpeɪi/
(US) IPA^(key): /pɑːmˈpeɪi/

Proper noun

Pompeii

A ruined Roman town in Italy, destroyed by Vesuvius (a volcano) in AD 79

Derived terms

Pompeiian, Pompeian

Translations

a historical city

Arabic: بُومْبِي‎ m (bumbī)
Armenian: Պոմպեյ (Pompey)
Catalan: Pompeia
Chinese:
Mandarin: 龐貝, 庞贝 (Pángbèi)
Dutch: Pompeï
Esperanto: Pompejo
Finnish: Pompeji
French: Pompéi (fr) f
German: Pompeji (de) n

Greek: Πομπηία f (Pompiía)
Italian: Pompei f
Japanese: ポンペイ (Pompei)
Latin: Pompeiī m
Neapolitan: Pumpeje
Polish: Pompeje (pl) f pl
Portuguese: Pompeia f
Russian: Помпе́и pl (Pompéi)
Spanish: Pompeya f
Swedish: Pompeji n

Latin

Karl Bryullov's The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-3)

Jakob Philipp Hackert's The Excavations at Pompeii (1799)

Etymology

From Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 (pumpe, “five”), a reference to its five districts, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe. See also gens name Pompēius.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pomˈpeːj.jiː/, [pɔmˈpeːj.jiː]

Proper noun

Pompēiī m pl (genitive Pompēiōrum); second declension

Pompeii (a maritime city in the south of Campania, overwhelmed by an eruption of Vesuvius, A.D. 79)

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Pompēiī
Genitive	Pompēiōrum
Dative	Pompēiīs
Accusative	Pompēiōs
Ablative	Pompēiīs
Vocative	Pompēiī
Locative	Pompēiīs

Derived terms

Pompēiānī m pl (“inhabitants of Pompeii”, noun)
Pompēiānum n (“a villa of Cicero near Pompeii”, noun)
Pompēiānus (“of, belonging to Pompeii”, adjective)

Related terms

Pompēius

See also

Campānia, Vesuvius

Proper noun

Pompēiī m

genitive singular of Pompēius

References

Pompeii in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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