letum

See also: letům and létům

Latin

Alternative forms

• lēthum

Etymology

Proposed derivations include:

• Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to flow”) (cognate with lītus).
• Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (cognate with λύω (lúō)).
• Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to let, leave”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (laizzi, “lets”))

Compare also Latin dēleō and linō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈleː.tum/, [ˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.tum/, [ˈlɛːt̪um]

Noun

lētum n (genitive lētī); second declension

1. violent death, annihilation, killing
2. ruin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lētum	lēta
Genitive	lētī	lētōrum
Dative	lētō	lētīs
Accusative	lētum	lēta
Ablative	lētō	lētīs
Vocative	lētum	lēta

Derived terms

• lētālis
• lētifer

References

• “letum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “letum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• letum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• letum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.