Padus

American  

[pey-duhs] / ˈpeɪ dəs /

noun

1. ancient name of Po.

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Padus British  

/ ˈpeɪdəs /

noun

1. the Latin name for the Po 2

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Example Sentences

ATRIA, a town of the Veneti, on the river Tartarus, between the Padus and the Athesis, now the Adige.

From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius

As then the mouth of the Padus was a vast estuary, so in the Gael. badh, a bay or estuary, I find the explanation of the name.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

Of the tributaries of the Padus, the Tic�nus on the north, and the Trebia on the south, are of historical interest.

From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin

It is improbable that absolutely the same vulgar Latin was at any epoch spoken in two remote districts of the same province—on the Tuscan sea-coast, for example, and on the banks of Padus.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

The Latin colonies between the Padus and the Rubicon would certainly have received Roman rights, and this may have been the case with a Latin township north of the Padus such as Aquileia.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)