Latium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]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.
- Lazio, the corresponding modern region.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]region of central Italy
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]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
[edit]- (administrative regions of Italy) Régions d’Italie; Abruzzes, Basilicate, Calabre, Campanie, Émilie-Romagne, Frioul-Vénétie julienne, Latium, Ligurie, Lombardie, Marches, Molise, Ombrie, Piémont, Pouilles, Sardaigne, Sicile, Toscane, Trentin-Haut-Adige, Vallée d’Aoste, Vénétie (Category: fr:Administrative regions of Italy)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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, or latus (“side”), being on the central-west side of the Italian peninsula.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Proper noun
[edit]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
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Case | 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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: Lacio
- Catalan: Laci
- Franco-Provençal: Lacion
- Friulian: Lazi
- Galician: Lacio
- Italian: Lazio
- Ligurian: Lassio
- Lombard: Làsio
- Neapolitan: Lazzio
- Occitan: Laci
- Piedmontese: Lassio
- Portuguese: Lácio
- Sardinian: Làtziu
- Sicilian: Lazziu
- Spanish: Lacio
- Venetian: Łasio
References
[edit]- “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.
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