gogravius

Latin

Etymology

From Middle High German göugrâve (“count of a district”), from göu (“district”) + grâve (“count”), itself a calque of Latin comes pāgī (“count of the village”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡoːˈɡraː.u̯i.us/, [ɡoːˈɡräːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡoˈɡra.vi.us/, [ɡoˈɡräːvius]

Noun

gōgrāvius m (genitive gōgrāviī or gōgrāvī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) count of a district, local judge

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gōgrāvius	gōgrāviī
genitive	gōgrāviī gōgrāvī1	gōgrāviōrum
dative	gōgrāviō	gōgrāviīs
accusative	gōgrāvium	gōgrāviōs
ablative	gōgrāviō	gōgrāviīs
vocative	gōgrāvie	gōgrāviī

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

Derived terms

• gōgrāvia

References

• gogravius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “gogravius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill