Latium

English

Latium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
• Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Latium

2. (historical) A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
3. (archaic or rare) Lazio: A modern administrative region of central Italy.

Related terms

• Latial
• Latian
• Latin

Translations

region of central Italy

• Arabic: لَاتْيُوم m (latyum)
• Armenian: Լացիում (Lacʻium)
• Catalan: Laci (ca)
• Esperanto: Latio
• Finnish: Latium (fi), Lazio
• French: Latium (fr) m
• Georgian: ლატიუმი (laṭiumi)
• German: Latium (de) n
• Greek: Λάτιο (el) n (Látio)

  Ancient: Λάτιον (Látion)

• Hindi: लैटियम (laiṭiyam)
• Italian: Lazio (it) m
• Japanese: ラティウム (Ratiumu)
• Korean: 라티움 (Ratium)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Latyûm f, Latium f

• Latin: Latium (la) n
• Portuguese: Lácio (pt) m
• Russian: Ла́ций (ru) (Lácij)
• Sicilian: Lazziu m
• Slovene: Lacij (sl) m
• Spanish: Lacio m
• Turkish: Latium
• Vietnamese: Latium (vi)
• Welsh: Latiwn f

Anagrams

• mulita, ultima, Umtali, Iatmul, Ultima

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.sjɔm/, (uncommon) /la.sjœm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -œm

Proper noun

Latium m

1. (historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)
2. Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

See also

regions of Italy: régions d'Italieedit

• Abruzzes
• Basilicate
• Calabre
• Campanie
• Émilie-Romagne
• Frioul-Vénétie julienne
• Latium
• Ligurie
• Lombardie
• Marches
• Molise
• Ombrie
• Piémont
• Pouilles
• Sardaigne
• Sicile
• Toscane
• Trentin-Haut-Adige
• Vallée d'Aoste
• Vénétie

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Latium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːtsi̯ʊm/, [ˈlaː.t͡si.ʊm], [ˈlaː.t͡sjʊm]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Latium n (proper noun, genitive Latiums or (optionally with an article) Latium)

1. (historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)
2. Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

Declension

Declension of Latium [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Latium
genitive	eines	des	Latiums
dative	einem	dem	Latium
accusative	ein	das	Latium

Related terms

• Latiner, latinisch
• Latein, Lateiner, lateinisch

See also

regions of Italy: italienische Regionenedit

• Abruzzen
• Aostatal
• Apulien
• Basilikata
• Emilia-Romagna
• Friaul-Julisch Venetien
• Kalabrien
• Kampanien
• Latium
• Ligurien
• Lombardei
• Marken
• Molise
• Piemont
• Sardinien
• Sizilien
• Toskana
• Trentino-Südtirol
• Umbrien
• Venetien

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; probably a loanword from an ancient, non-Indo-European substrate language, possibly Etruscan or a related language, but it has also been linked to lātus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land of the region, or latus (“side”), being on the central-west side of the Italian peninsula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

Proper noun

Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension

1. (historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Latium
genitive	Latiī Latī1
dative	Latiō
accusative	Latium
ablative	Latiō
vocative	Latium
locative	Latiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Latiālis / Latiar
• Latius
• Latīnus

Descendants

• Aragonese: Lazio
• Asturian: Lacio
• Catalan: Laci
• Franco-Provençal: Lacion
• French: Latium
• Friulian: Lazi
• Galician: Lacio
• Italian: Lazio
  • → Greek: Λάτιο (Látio), Λάτσιο (Látsio)
• Ligurian: Lassio
• Lombard: Làsio
• Neapolitan: Lazzio
• Occitan: Laci
• Piedmontese: Lassio
• → Polish: Lacjum
• Portuguese: Lácio
• Romanian: Latium
• → Serbo-Croatian: Lacij, Lacijum
• Sardinian: Làtziu
• → Slovene: Lacij
• Sicilian: Lazziu
• Spanish: Lacio
• Venetan: Łazsio

References

• “Latium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Latium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Anagrams

• ultima, ultimā