Aecae

Compare the names Aeculanum, Aequum Tuticum and Superaequum, as well as Aequum in Illyria. Per Ribezzo, possibly from a pre-Oscan (Daunian/Messapic) substrate *aikwo (“plain”), since kw becomes p in Oscan, though this is disputed.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.kae̯/, [ˈäe̯käe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.t͡ʃe/, [ˈɛːt͡ʃe]

Aecae f pl (genitive Aecārum); first declension

1. An inland town in Apulia, now Troia

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Aecānī
• Aecānus

• “Aecae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Aecae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Aecae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ribezzo, “Roma delle Origini, Sabini e Sabelli”, RIGI XIV 1930