Pomerium Definition

noun

(historical, Roman Empire) The tract of land denoting the formal, sacral ambit of a Roman city.

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Origin of Pomerium

  • From Latin pōmoerium, pōmērium (“the religious boundary of a city”), which word being either formed as post (“behind”) + moerus, mūrus (“wall”) + -ium (neuter form of -ius, adjectival suffix) or derived from Etruscan.

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