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pomoerium

Meaning of "pomoerium" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF POMOERIUM

pɒˈmiːrɪəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POMOERIUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pomoerium is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POMOERIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pomerium

The pomerium or pomoerium, was the sacred boundary of the city of Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within the pomerium; everything beyond it was simply territory belonging to Rome.

Definition of pomoerium in the English dictionary

The definition of pomoerium in the dictionary is the space around a town within the city walls.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POMOERIUM

auditorium · cafetorium · castoreum · ciborium · cladosporium · conservatorium · corium · crematorium · deinotherium · emporium · eupatorium · moratorium · natatorium · praetorium · sanatorium · sanitorium · scriptorium · sensorium · tentorium · thorium

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POMOERIUM

pommel · pommel horse · pommele · pommelled · pommelling · Pommern · pommetty · pommie · pommy · pomo · pomological · pomologically · pomologist · pomology · Pomona · Pomorze · pomosexual · pomp · pompadour · pompano

WORDS THAT END LIKE POMOERIUM

aquarium · archaebacterium · bacterium · cerium · corynebacterium · criterium · cyanobacterium · desiderium · deuterium · elaterium · eubacterium · imperium · magisterium · meitnerium · ministerium · mycobacterium · nitrobacterium · nototherium · psalterium · puerperium · sericterium

Synonyms and antonyms of pomoerium in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pomoerium» into 25 languages

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pomoerium
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pomoerium
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pomoerium
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Pomoerium
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pomoerium
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Pomoerium
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pomoerium
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pomoerium
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पोमोरीयम
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pomoerium
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pomoerium
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POMOERIUM»

Discover the use of pomoerium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pomoerium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ancient Rome: With a map of ancient Rome and numerous ...
14), that the pomoerium must have been carried on to its termination. Indeed the Porta Romanula, one of the gates of the Romuleau city, lay, as we shall presently see, on the NW. side, a little to the N. of the spot whence Tacitus commences ...
Thomas Henry Dyer, 1864
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by Various ...
14). that the pomoerium must have been carried on to its termination. Indeed the Ports Romanula, one of the gates of the Rornulean city, lay, as we shall presently see, on the NW. side, a little to the N. of the spot whence Tacitus commences ...
‎1873
3
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
The line of the furrow, or boundary of the pomoerium, was marked by stones or cippu The name pomoerium was also extended to another open space within the walls which was kept free from buildings. The matter is very clearly explained by  ...
William Smith, 1857
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
The name pomoerium was also extended to another open space within the walls which was kept free from buildings. The matter is very clearly explained by Livyinthe following passage: — " Pomoerium, verbi vim solum intuentes, postmoerium ...
William Smith, 1873
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
POMOE'RIUM. This word is compounded of post and moerinm (murus), in the same manner as pomcridiem of post and meridiem, and thus signifies a line running by the walls of a town ( pone or post muros). The pomoerium, however, did not ...
Greek antiquities, William Smith (sir), sir William Smith, 1848
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: 2: Iabadius-Zymethus
14), that the pomoerium must have been carried on to its termination. Indeed the Ports Romannla, one of the gates of the Bomulean city, lay, as we shall presently see, on the NW. side, a little to the N. of the spot whence Tacitus commences his  ...
‎1873
7
A manual of Roman antiquities
Stones have been found in various places around Rome, which commemorate the extension of the pomoerium by Augustus and Claudius, and we give an inscription copied from one of these, which possesses peculiar interest, from exhibiting ...
William Wardlaw Ramsay, 1863
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A Manual of Roman Antiquities: With Numerous Illustrations
Stones have been found in various places around Rome, which commemorate the extension of the pomoerium by Augustus and Claudius, and we give an inscription copied from one of these, which possesses peculiar interest, from exhibiting ...
William Sir Ramsay, 1851
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A DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
Dionysus* states that, down to his time, nobody had extended the pomoerium since the time of King Ser- Tius, although we know from authentic sources that at least Augustus enlarged the pomcerium,* and the same is said of Sulla and J.
‎1843
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History of Rome [by H. Malden].
The Avenfine, whether it were within the wall of Servius or not, was certainly not within the pomoerium, and the reason was, that the settlers upon it were Plebeians.t At a later period, when the Patricians had encroached upon it, the exclusive ...
Henry Malden, 1830
REFERENCE
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