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Latin
Etymology
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Proper noun
Eleusium m sg (genitive Eleusiī or Eleusī); second declension
- a male given name, character in the play Aulularia of Plautus
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Eleusium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Eleusium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.