Esquiliae

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Aesquiliae
  • Exquiliae

Etymology

Perhaps either:

  • related to inquilīnus (see also Esquilīnus), from *eks +‎ *kʷe/ilō (Latin colō) +‎ *-jā, with cluster simplification /eksk/ → /esk/ as seen in escendō; according to the legend the district was later added to Rome by the king Servius Tullius (Liv.I.44) to cope with the evergrowing flow of new Roman subjects; it would then mean: "the district of sojourners (or dwellers), once foreigners, living outside the city (pre-Servian Wall)".[1] Or,
  • from aesculus (“a kind of oak”), compare Viminālis mons (literally “willow, osier hill”).

Proper noun

Esquiliae f pl (genitive Esquiliārum); first declension

  1. a district in Rome situated on the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome
  2. the Esquiline Hill
    Synonym: Esquilīnus mons

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Esquiliae
genitive Esquiliārum
dative Esquiliīs
accusative Esquiliās
ablative Esquiliīs
vocative Esquiliae
locative Esquiliīs

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “colō”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 132

Further reading

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