Latium

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Latium
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium.

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

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Pronunciation

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 southwest side of the Italian peninsula.

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *Lazio

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.