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Latin being an inflected language, names in a Latin context may have different word-endings to those shown here, which are given in the nominative case. For instance Roma (Rome) may appear as Romae meaning "at Rome" (), "of Rome" or "to/for Rome" (), as Romam meaning "Rome" as a direct object (), or indeed as RomÄ with a long a, probably not indicated in the orthography, meaning "by, with or ...
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
List of Latin names of cities; List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia; List of Latin names of countries; E. Latin exonyms; I.
This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans. It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global ...
Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking.During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.
A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
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The name Heliconia indica invokes two locations: Heliconia refers to Mount Helicon, [1] and indica means 'from India'. [2] A list of place names, used in Latin descriptions and, after the development of binomial nomenclature, as specific names in the natural sciences.