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English
Etymology
From Latin Lutetia.
Proper noun
Lutetia
- An ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris.
- (astronomy) 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid.
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Latin
Etymology
From the Gaulish word for “swamp”, from Proto-Celtic *lutā (“dirt, mud”). See also Welsh lludedic (“slimy, muddy”) and Old Irish loth (“dirt”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lūtētia f sg (genitive Lūtētiae); first declension
- Lutetia (ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris)
- Paris (the capital and largest city of modern France)
Usage notes
Lŭtētia also attested in later inscriptions, as in the hexameter Commoda dum victūs rēgīna Lutētia præbet (Hôtel de Lamoignon, Paris).
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
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Further reading
- “Lutetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lutetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.