Patavium

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly connected to the river Padus, or formed from pateo (“I increase or extend (frontiers)”), or borrowed from Gaulish *padi (“pines”), cognate with padi (“pitch pines”).

Proper noun

Patavium n sg (genitive Pataviī or Patavī); second declension

1. Padua (a city in Italy)

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Patavium
genitive	Pataviī Patavī1
dative	Pataviō
accusative	Patavium
ablative	Pataviō
vocative	Patavium
locative	Pataviī

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

References

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