Olisipo

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ulisippō, Olisippō, Olysippō, Ulysippō, Olysīpō

Etymology

Unknown origin, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (likely Tartessian) word for the Tagus, via Phoenician. Some spelling variants are due to the folk etymology connecting the name of the town with Ulixēs/Ulyssēs (“Odysseus”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.liˈsiː.poː/, [ɔlʲɪˈs̠iːpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.liˈsi.po/, [oliˈs̬iːpo]

Proper noun

Olisīpō f sg or m sg (genitive Olisīpōnis); third declension

1. Lisbon (a city in modern Portugal)

Usage notes

• The gender is unattested. Some dictionaries list this words as masculine (Lewis and Short, Gaffiot) and some as feminine (Kraft and Forbiger, Oxford Latin Dictionary).

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Olisīpō
Genitive	Olisīpōnis
Dative	Olisīpōnī
Accusative	Olisīpōnem
Ablative	Olisīpōne
Vocative	Olisīpō
Locative	Olisīpōnī Olisīpōne

Derived terms

• olisīpōnēnsis

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: Olisipona
  • Old Spanish: Ulixbona
  • → Arabic: لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), أُشْبُونَة (ʔušbūna)
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: Lixbõa, Lisbõa
      • Galician: Lisboa
      • Portuguese: Lisboa (see there for further descendants)
      • → Mirandese: Lisboua
    • French: Lisbonne
      • English: Lisbon
      • → Ottoman Turkish: لیزبون (Lizbon)
        • Turkish: Lizbon
      • → Armenian: Լիզպոն (Lizpon)
    • German: Lissabon
    • Italian: Lisbona
• → Portuguese: Olissipo, Olisipo (learned)

References

• “Olisipo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Olisipo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Olisīpō” on page 1246 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Friedrich Karl Kraft and M. Albert Forbiger, Neues deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, Leipzig, 1826, page 1403 (in an appendix of geographical names entitled "Geographischer Anhang"): "Liſſabon, (Lisboa), Olissipo (Ulisippo, Olisipo), onis, f. Plin. Lisbona."

Portuguese

Proper noun

Olisipo f

1. Alternative form of Olissipo