Matalia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ματαλία (Matalía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maˈta.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [maˈt̪aː.li.a]

Matalia f sg (genitive Mataliae); first declension

1. A town in Crete near the headland of Matala

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Matalia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly