Gordium

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Γόρδιον (Górdion).

Proper noun

Gordium n sg (genitive Gordiī or Gordī); second declension

1. The capital city of ancient Phrygia in present-day Turkey.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gordium
genitive	Gordiī Gordī1
dative	Gordiō
accusative	Gordium
ablative	Gordiō
vocative	Gordium

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

References

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