Bucolium

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουκόλιον (Boukólion).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Būcolium n sg (genitive Būcoliī or Būcolī); second declension

  1. A town of Laconia, where the inhabitants of Mantinea were defeated by those from Tegea

Declension[edit]

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

Case Singular
Nominative Būcolium
Genitive Būcoliī
Būcolī1
Dative Būcoliō
Accusative Būcolium
Ablative Būcoliō
Vocative Būcolium
Locative Būcoliī

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

References[edit]

  • “Bucolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Bucolion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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