Latium

English

Latium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Latium

1. (historical) A 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, the corresponding modern region.

Translations

region of central Italy

• Arabic: لَاتْيُوم‎ m (latyum)
• Armenian: Լացիում (Lacʿium)
• 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

• Iatmul, Ultima, mulita, ultima

French

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Latium m

1. Latium (ancient region)
2. Lazio (modern region)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

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

1. Latium

Declension

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

Case	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

• Vulgar Latin: *Lazio
  • Asturian: Lacio
  • Catalan: Laci
  • Spanish: Lacio
  • Franco-Provençal: Lacion
  • Galician: Lacio
  • Italian: Lazio
  • Korean: 라티움 (Ratium)
  • Lombard: Làsio
  • Neapolitan: Lazzio
  • Piedmontese: Lassio
  • Portuguese: Lácio
  • Sicilian: Lazziu

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