confinium

Latin

Etymology

From cōnfīnis (“bordering on, adjoining”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

cōnfīnium n (genitive cōnfīniī or cōnfīnī); second declension

  1. confine
  2. border
  3. limit

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnfīnium cōnfīnia
Genitive cōnfīniī
cōnfīnī1		 cōnfīniōrum
Dative cōnfīniō cōnfīniīs
Accusative cōnfīnium cōnfīnia
Ablative cōnfīniō cōnfīniīs
Vocative cōnfīnium cōnfīnia

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

Descendants
  • → Welsh: cyffin

References
  • “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “confinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • confinium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • confinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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