Lutetia

See also: lutetia

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Lutetia.

Proper noun

Lutetia

1. A Roman town on the site of modern-day Paris.
2. (astronomy) 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid.

Translations

Roman town

• French: Lutèce (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: Lutécia (pt) f

Asteroid

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• lautite, lituate

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Latin

Etymology

From the Gaulish word for ”swamp”. See also Welsh lludedic (“slimy, muddy”) and Old Irish loth (“dirt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luˈte.ti.a/, [ɫ̪ʊˈt̪ɛt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈte.t͡si.a/, [luˈt̪ɛːt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Lutetia f sg (genitive Lutetiae); first declension

1. Paris, Lutetia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lutetia
Genitive	Lutetiae
Dative	Lutetiae
Accusative	Lutetiam
Ablative	Lutetiā
Vocative	Lutetia
Locative	Lutetiae

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Λευκετία (Leuketía)
• English: Lutetia

References

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