moenia

A plurale tantum, from Old Latin moene, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences”). Cognate with mūrus (“wall”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoe̯.ni.a/

moenia n pl (genitive moenium); third declension

1. city walls, fortifications, walls

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

• mūniō

• moenia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moenia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields: testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
    
• moenia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moenia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin