Velitrae

Uncertain; has been explained as Etruscan, from the same stem as Latin Volsiniī and Volscī. Reflected as Ancient Greek Οὐέλιτραι (Ouélitrai).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.li.trae̯/, or IPA^(key): /u̯eˈlit.rae̯/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.li.tre/, or IPA^(key): /veˈlit.re/,
• Note: the second syllable scans as heavy in the only two occurrences in hexameter poetry by Silius Italicus.^[1] However, the Ancient Greek and the modern form of the name suggest the vowel was actually short. The heavy scansion may result from the freedom to syllabify intervocalic as in poetry, or perhaps poetic lengthening of the vowel.

Velī̆trae f pl (genitive Velī̆trārum); first declension

1. A city in Latium, situated on the southern slope of the Alban hills, now Velletri

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Velī̆ternīnus
• Velī̆ternī
• Velī̆ternus

• Italian: Vellétri; Vellétre (locally)

• “Velitrae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Velitrae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Velitrae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.