Euphorbium

From Ancient Greek Εὐφόρβιον (Euphórbion), from Εὔφορβος (Eúphorbos, “Euphorbus”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ium”). The name is from Εὔφορβος (Eúphorbos, “well-fed”); εὖ (eû, “well”) + φορβή (phorbḗ, “food, fodder”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛu̯ˈpʰɔr.bi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eu̯ˈfɔr.bi.um]

Euphorbium n sg (genitive Euphorbiī or Euphorbī); second declension

1. A town of Phrygia situated on the road from Synnada to Apamea

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

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

• Euphorbēnī

• “Euphorbium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly