Latium

English

Latium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Latium

(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)
Finnish: Latium (fi), Lazio
French: Latium (fr) m
Georgian: ლატიუმი (laṭiumi)
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
Welsh: Latiwn f

Anagrams

Iatmul, mulita, ultima

Latin

Etymology

Probably a loanword from an ancient non-Indo-European language, but it has also been linked to latus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land, or "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

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

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

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