Aletrium

Latin

Etymology

There is no agreed upon etymology. Indo-European, Semitic, and Etruscan origins have been suggested.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈleː.tri.um/, [äˈɫ̪eːt̪riʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, [äˈlɛːt̪rium]

Proper noun

Alētrium n sg (genitive Alētriī or Alētrī); second declension

1. A Latian town in Italy, originally settled by the Hernici, taken and controlled by a the Roman Empire in 306 BC, site of modern Alatri

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Alētrium
Genitive	Alētriī Alētrī1
Dative	Alētriō
Accusative	Alētrium
Ablative	Alētriō
Vocative	Alētrium
Locative	Alētriī

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

Derived terms

• Alētrīnas
• Alētrīnātēs
• Alētrīnensis

Related terms

• Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

Descendants

• Italian: Alatri
• → Ancient Greek: Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

References

• “Alētrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Alĕtrĭum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.