Herculaneum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Herculaneum, named for the mythical figure Hercules.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhɜːkjuˈleɪni.əm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhɜɹkjəˈleɪni.əm/

Herculaneum

2. An ancient town in modern Campania, Italy, which was entirely destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that also turned Pompeii into a ruin.

• Herculanium

Named for the mythical figure Hercules.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɛr.kʊˈɫaː.ne.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [er.kuˈlaː.ne.um]

Herculāneum n sg (genitive Herculāneī); second declension

1. Herculaneum (an ancient town in modern Campania, Italy, which was entirely destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that also turned Pompeii into a ruin)

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

• → English: Herculaneum
• → French: Herculanum
• → Italian: Ercolano
• → Spanish: Herculano

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