Latium
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Latium
- (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
- Lazio, the corresponding modern region
Translations
region of central Italy
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Latium m
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 southwest side of the Italian peninsula.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Proper noun
Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension
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
Descendants
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.
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