Latin

Alternative forms

• Chersonēsus, Cherronēsos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χερρόνησος ‎(Kherrhónēsos).

Proper noun

Cherronēsus f ‎(genitive Cherronēsī); second declension

1. Various peninsulas in the Hellenistic world, especially:
   1. The Gallipoli Peninsula, the northwestern side of the Hellespont
      • 1511, Bernardus Sylvanus ed., Jacobus Angelus's translation of Ptolemy as Liber Geographica, Bk VIII:

        In nona Tabula[:] Iaziges metanastae[,] Dacia Vulachia[,] Mysia superior: Seruia[,] Mysia inferior Bosna[,] Tratia[,] Chersonesus.

   2. Short for Taurica Cherronesus: the Crimea

Inflection

Second declension, with locative.

Synonyms

• (Gallipoli Peninsula): Thracica Cherronesus

References

• Cherronesus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Cherronesus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.