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Latin
Etymology
According to Virgil, the city was named after a laurel tree, from laurus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Laurentum n sg (genitive Laurentī); second declension
- Laurentum, a maritime town in Latium between Ostia and Lavinium (now Torre).
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Further reading
- Edward Herbert Bunbury (1854). "Laurentum". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: Walton and Maberly
- Theodore C. Williams (1910). "Virgil, Aeneid 7.59". P. Vergilius Maro. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
- “Laurentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Laurentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.