Latium

Latium

English

Latium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
• Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um

Proper noun

Latium

1. (historical) A region of central Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire

Translations

region of central Italy

Arabic: لَاتْيُوم‎ m (latyum) Armenian: Լացիում (Lacʿium) Catalan: Laci (ca) Esperanto: Latio Finnish: Latium (fi), Lazio French: Latium (fr) m Georgian: ლატიუმი (laṭiumi) German: Latium (de) n Greek: Λάτιο (el) n (Látio) Ancient: Λάτιον (Látion) Hindi: लैटियम (laiṭiyam)

Italian: Lazio (it) m Japanese: ラティウム (Ratiumu) Korean: 라티움 (Ratium) Latin: Latium (la) n Portuguese: Lácio (pt) m Russian: Ла́ций (ru) (Lácij) Slovene: Lacij (sl) m Spanish: Lacio m Turkish: Latium Vietnamese: Latium (vi) Welsh: Latiwn f

Anagrams

• Iatmul, Ultima, mulita, ultima

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Latin

Etymology

Probably a loanword from an ancient non-Indo-European language, but it has also been linked to lātus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land, or latus (“side”), being on the southwest side of the Italian peninsula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫa.ti.ũ]

Proper noun

Latium n (genitive Latiī); second declension

1. Latium

Inflection

Second declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Latium
Genitive	Latiī
Dative	Latiō
Accusative	Latium
Ablative	Latiō
Vocative	Latium
Locative	Latiī

Derived terms

• Latiālis/ Latiar
• Latius
• Latīnus

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: Lazio
  • Italian: Lazio

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