Adranum

Latin

Alternative forms

• Hādrānum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀδρᾱνόν (Adrānón).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /adˈraː.num/, [äd̪ˈräːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /adˈra.num/, [äd̪ˈräːnum]

Proper noun

Adrānum n sg (genitive Adrānī); second declension

1. A city in interior Sicily, situated at the foot of the mount Aetna, now Adrano

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Adrānum
genitive	Adrānī
dative	Adrānō
accusative	Adrānum
ablative	Adrānō
vocative	Adrānum
locative	Adrānī

Derived terms

• Adrānītānī
• Adrānītānus

Descendants

• Italian: Adrano
• Sicilian: Dirnò

References

• “Hādrānum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Adranum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Hadranum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.