Latium

English

Latium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Latium

2. (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.
3. Lazio, the corresponding modern region.

Related terms

• Latial
• Latian
• Latin

Translations

region of central Italy

• Arabic: لَاتْيُوم m (latyum)
• Armenian: Լացիում (Lacʻium)
• 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)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Latyûm f, Latium f

• Latin: Latium (la) n
• Portuguese: Lácio (pt) m
• Russian: Ла́ций (ru) (Lácij)
• Sicilian: Lazziu m
• Slovene: Lacij (sl) m
• Spanish: Lacio m
• Turkish: Latium
• Vietnamese: Latium (vi)
• Welsh: Latiwn f

Anagrams

• mulita, ultima, Umtali, Iatmul, Ultima

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.sjɔm/, /la.sjœm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -œm

Proper noun

Latium m

1. (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)
2. Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

See also

• (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

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension

1. (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

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

• Latiālis / Latiar
• Latius
• Latīnus

Descendants

• 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

• “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.

Anagrams

• ultima, ultimā