catonium

From Ancient Greek κάτω (kátō, “below; in the underworld”) + -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈtoː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈt̪ɔː.ni.um]

catōnium n (genitive catōniī or catōnī); second declension

1. the underworld

The word occurs in Cicero as a play on the name Cato.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “catonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers