Gordium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Γόρδιον (Górdion).

Proper noun

Gordium n sg (genitive Gordiī or Gordī); second declension

  1. The capital city of ancient Phrygia in present-day Turkey.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Gordium
Genitive Gordiī
Gordī1
Dative Gordiō
Accusative Gordium
Ablative Gordiō
Vocative Gordium

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

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