Hadrumetum

Latin > English

Hadrumetum Hadrumeti N N :: Andrumetum/Hadrumetum (city of Africa propria, capital of province Byzacene)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Hadrūmētum: (Adrūm-), i, n. (also Hadrumetus, i, f., Mart. Cap. 6, § 670), = Ἁδρούμητος,
I a city of Africa propria, the capital of the province Byzacene, Mel. 1, 7, 2; Plin. 5, 4, 3, § 25; Caes. B. C. 2, 23; Liv. 30, 29.—
II Deriv. Hadrūmētīnus (Adr-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hadrumetum, Hadrumetine: Clodius Albinus, of Hadrumetum, Capitol. Albin. 1: navis, Vulg. Act. 27, 2.—Subst.: Hadrūmētī-ni, ōrum, m. plur., the inhabitants of Hadrumetum, Hadrumetines, Auct. B. Afr. 97, 2.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Hădrūmētum,¹² v. Adr- : Plin. 5, 25.

Latin > German (Georges)

Hadrūmētum, -mētīnus, s. Adrumetum.

Latin > Greek

Ἀδρούμητος, Ἀδραμητός, Ἀδρύμης

Wikipedia EN

Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.

The Phoenician and Punic name for the place was DRMT (𐤃‬𐤓‬𐤌𐤕‬), "Southern", or ʾDRMT (𐤀𐤃‬𐤓‬𐤌𐤕‬), "The Southern", which holds similarity to the hebrew word דרום "Darom" (south) or Ha-Dromit ("The southern") . A similar structure appears in the Phoenician name for old Cadiz, which appears as Gadir ("Stronghold") or Agadir ("The Stronghold").

The ancient transcriptions of the name show a great deal of variation. Different Greeks hellenized the name as Adrýmē (Ἀδρύμη), Adrýmēs (Ἀδρύμης), Adrýmēton (Ἀδρύμητον), Adrýmētos (Ἀδρύμητος), Adramýtēs (Ἀδραμύτης), Adrámētós (Ἀδράμητος) and Adrumetum (Ἀδρούμητον). Surviving Roman inscriptions and coinage standardized its latinization as Hadrumetum but it appears in other sources as Adrumetum, Adrumetus, Adrimetum, Hadrymetum, etc. Upon its notional refounding as a Roman colony, its formal name was emended to Colonia Concordia Ulpia Trajana Augusta Frugifera Hadrumetina to honor its imperial sponsor.

It was renamed Honoriopolis after the emperor Honorius in the early 5th century, then Hunericopolis after the Vandal king Huneric and Justinianopolis after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.