Vibo Valentia

Vibo Valentia

1. A province of Calabria, Italy.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.bo vaˈlɛn.t͡sja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntsja
• Hyphenation: Vì‧bo Va‧lèn‧tia

Vibo Valentia f

1. A province of Calabria, Italy

• vibonese

• Vibō, Hippōnium, Valentia (Classical Latin)

Latinization of Italian Vibo Valentia, itself a Classicalizing compound of the Latin names Vibō and Valentia. The former name of the city, in Italian Monteleone, was Mons Leōnis

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.boː u̯aˈlen.ti.a/, [ˈu̯ɪboː u̯äˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.bo vaˈlen.t͡si.a/, [ˈviːbo väˈlɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Vibō Valentia f sg (variously declined, genitive Vibōnis Valentiae); third declension, first declension

1. (Contemporary Latin) Vibo Valentia (a town in Calabria, Italy)
   • 1710, Giuseppe Bisogni de Gatti, Hipponii, seu Vibonis Valentiae, vel Montisleonis, page 58:

     Ipsius verò Vibonis Valentiæ totus murorum ambitus, secundum Mazzella in historia Regni, & Capialbum de Monteleone, ad octo mill. pass. colligit, […]

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   • 1878, Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum ad archetyporum et librorum fidem, page 106:

     nota in nummis Bruttiorum oppidi Vibonis Valentiae quod nunc Monteleone vocatur posita.

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   • 1890, Inscriptiones Graecae: Inscriptiones Italiae et Siciliae ..., page 156:

     Inventa prope Vibonis Valentiae portum a. 1835, nunc cum aliis in meo museo adservatur CAP.

Third-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.