Λάτιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin Latium.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.ti.on/ → /ˈla.ti.on/ → /ˈla.ti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.ti.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.on/

Proper noun

Λᾰ́τῐον • (Látion) n (genitive Λᾰτῐ́ου); second declension

1. Latium; Lazio, Italy

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Λᾰ́τῐον; τοῦ Λᾰτῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Λᾰ́τῐον tò Látion
Genitive	τοῦ Λᾰτῐ́ου toû Latíou
Dative	τῷ Λᾰτῐ́ῳ tôi Latíōi
Accusative	τὸ Λᾰ́τῐον tò Látion
Vocative	Λᾰ́τῐον Látion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Λᾰτῖνος (Latînos)
• Λᾰτῑ́νη (Latī́nē)
• Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē)
• Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos)
• Ῥωμᾱνός (Rhōmānós)
• Ῥωμαϊστί (Rhōmaïstí)

Descendants

• Aragonese: Lazio
• Catalan: Laci
• English: Latium
• French: Latium
• Friulian: Lazi
• Galician: Lacio
• Greek: Λάτιο (Látio), Λάτσιο (Látsio) (via Italian)
• Italian: Lazio
• Latin: Latium
• Ligurian: Lassio
• Occitan: Laci
• Piedmontese: Lassio
• Polish: Lacjum
• Portuguese: Lácio
• Romanian: Latium
• Serbo-Croatian: Lacij, Lacijum
• Slovene: Lacij
• Spanish: Lacio
• Venetian: Łazsio

References

• “Λάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015