Aletrium
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Latin
Etymology
There is no agreed upon etymology. Indo-European, Semitic, and Etruscan origins have been suggested.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, or IPA(key): /aˈlet.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, or IPA(key): /aˈlet.ri.um/,
Proper noun
Aletrium n sg (genitive Aletriī or Aletrī); second declension
- A Latian town in Italy, originally settled by the Hernici, taken and controlled by a the Roman Empire in 306 BC, site of modern Alatri
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Aletrium |
| genitive | Aletriī Aletrī1 |
| dative | Aletriō |
| accusative | Aletrium |
| ablative | Aletriō |
| vocative | Aletrium |
| locative | Aletriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Related terms
- Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)
Descendants
References
- “Alētrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Alĕtrĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.