pomerio

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pōmoerium, pōmērium (“the religious boundary of a city”), which word being either formed as post (“behind”) + moerus, mūrus (“wall”) + -ium (neuter form of -ius, adjectival suffix) or derived from Etruscan [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈmɛ.rjo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrjo
  • Hyphenation: po‧mè‧rio

Noun

pomerio m (plural pomeri)

  1. (historical) In the Roman Empire, the tract of land denoting the formal, sacral ambit of a Roman city

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

pōmēriō

  1. dative/ablative singular of pōmērium
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