Latium

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
  • Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um

Proper noun

Latium

  2. (historical) A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
  3. Lazio, the corresponding modern region.

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Proper noun

Latium m

  1. (historical) Latium (a historical 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 (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

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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 central-west side of the Italian peninsula.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension

  1. (historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)

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).

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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.

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