Latin

Alternative forms

• prōmontorium

Noun

prōmunturium n ‎(genitive prōmunturiī); second declension

1. peak; highest part of a mountain chain.
2. cape, headland, promontory

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: promontory
• Spanish: promontorio

References

• promunturium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• promunturium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “promunturium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • to double a cape: promunturium superare
    
  • to double an island, cape: superare insulam, promunturium