Latium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
- Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um
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Proper noun
Latium
- (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.
- (archaic or rare) Lazio: A modern administrative region of central Italy.
Related terms
Translations
region of central Italy
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.sjɔm/, (uncommon) /la.sjœm/
- Rhymes: -ɔm, -œm
Proper noun
Latium m
- (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)
- Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)
See also
German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Latium.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Latium n (proper noun, genitive Latiums or (optionally with an article) Latium)
- (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)
- Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)
Declension
Declension of Latium [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Related terms
See also
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; probably a loanword from an ancient, non-Indo-European substrate language, possibly Etruscan or a related language, but it has also been linked to lātus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land of the region, or latus (“side”), being on the central-west side of the Italian peninsula.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫa.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Proper noun
Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension
- (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.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Latium |
| genitive | Latiī Latī1 |
| dative | Latiō |
| accusative | Latium |
| ablative | Latiō |
| vocative | Latium |
| locative | Latiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: Lazio
- Asturian: Lacio
- Catalan: Laci
- Franco-Provençal: Lacion
- French: Latium
- Friulian: Lazi
- Galician: Lacio
- Italian: Lazio
- → Greek: Λάτιο (Látio), Λάτσιο (Látsio)
- Ligurian: Lassio
- Lombard: Làsio
- Neapolitan: Lazzio
- Occitan: Laci
- Piedmontese: Lassio
- → Polish: Lacjum
- Portuguese: Lácio
- Romanian: Latium
- → Serbo-Croatian: Lacij, Lacijum
- Sardinian: Làtziu
- → Slovene: Lacij
- Sicilian: Lazziu
- Spanish: Lacio
- Venetan: Łazsio
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.