Londinium

English Etymology en la Londinium. en London. Pronunciation en /lʌnˈdɪn.ɪ.əm/ UK en /lʌnˈdɪn.i.əm/ US Proper noun en historical en city p/Britannia c/Roman Empire: An ancient en settlement in the area of modern en London. en poetic en modern London: en city cc/England c/UK. References en London Latin la: Alternative forms la Lundinium Londonium Lundonium Londonum Londinum Late and Medieval Latin la Lundonia Londonia Lundoniae Medieval Latin, as sg. or pl. Etymology la :der cel-pro:*Londinyom<t:place that floods><unc:1> London 1 la, but likely from la cel-pro *Londinyom place that floods, from la ine-pro *lendʰ- heath; wild land land + *-injo-, a suffix forming specific nouns and found in other Romano-Celtic placenames. Cognate to cel-pro *landā low-lying land, whence sga land, cy llan, as well as cel-pro *londos adj. subduing > fierce, whence sga lond.en Peter Schrijver Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages 2013 Routledge https://books.google.com/books?id=MUVJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54 978-1-134-25449-1 54-57 2 Details An earlier, more difficult proposal derives it from cel-pro *Φlowonidonyom, morphologically adapted from a pre-Celtic Indo-European substrate word meaning something like “Boat River, Unfordable River” or “Flooding-River” and made up of la ine-pro *plew- to flow and a disputed ine-pro *neyd- to flow.en Richard Coates A New Explanation of the Name of London Transactions of the Philological Society 203–229 1998 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-968X.00027 96 2 1467-968X 10.1111/1467-968X.00027 https://web.archive.org/web/20230620092228/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-968X.00027 20 June 2023 Forms in -don- could be artificial Latinizations modelled after e.g. ang Wreocen < la Viroconium (modern Wroxeter). Appears as wlm Llundein, ang Lunden, which may not continue the Classical Latin form, but may continue Late British Latin *Lundeinju if the medial -i- of the original word was short. Cf. Etymology of London. Pronunciation Londinium Note: the length of the medial /i/ is unattested, but is likely to have been short. Proper noun Londinium<2.loc> la Classical Latin la city p/Britannia c/Roman Empire Londinium London la Medieval Latin New Latin la capital city c/United Kingdom ; capital city cc/England London Declension Londinium<2.loc> Derived terms la Londiniēnsis Descendants grc Λονδίνιον 1 ang Lunden 1 en Londinium 1 de London 1 scn Lògnina Lònnira References Further reading la proper noun forms la Capital cities Cities in England National capitals