Minius

Latin
rio Minho

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Celtic, either from Proto-Celtic *mino- (“smooth”) (compare Welsh mwyn, Irish mín), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“soft, smooth”)[1] or from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“to go”).[2]

Possibly from Latin minium.[2]

Proper noun

Minius m sg (genitive Miniī or Minī); second declension

  1. A river in Gallaecia, now the Minho river

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Minius
Genitive Miniī
Minī1
Dative Miniō
Accusative Minium
Ablative Miniō
Vocative Minī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Minho
    • Galician: Miño
    • Portuguese: Minho

References
  • “Minius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Minius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Minius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  1. Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
  2. Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Minius.
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