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Latin
Etymology
See the quotation.
Pronunciation
Noun
altellus m (genitive altellī); second declension (hapax)
- an epithet or perhaps cognomen of Romulus
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 7, line 10:Altellus Rōmulus dīcēbātur, quasi altus in tellūre, vel quod tellūrem suam aleret; sīve quod alerētur tēlīs; vel quod ā Tatiō Sabīnōrum rēge postulātus sit in colloquiō pācis, et alternīs vicibus audierit locūtusque fuerit. Sīcut enim fit dīminūtīve ā macrō macellus, a vafrō vafellus, ita ab alternō altellus.- Altellus was Romulus called, as if 'high in the land', or because he nourished his land; or because he was nourished by weapons; or because he was summoned by Tatius for peace talks, and he listened and spoke by turns . For in the same way the diminutive macellus is derived from macer and vafellus from vafer, so altellus from alternus.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “altellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- altellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.