Aletrium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, [äˈɫ̪ɛt̪riʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /aˈlet.ri.um/, [äˈɫ̪ɛt̪riʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, [äˈlɛːt̪rium] or IPA^(key): /aˈlet.ri.um/, [äˈlɛt̪rium]

Proper noun

Aletrium n sg (genitive Aletriī or Aletrī); 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	Aletrium
Genitive	Aletriī Aletrī1
Dative	Aletriō
Accusative	Aletrium
Ablative	Aletriō
Vocative	Aletrium
Locative	Aletriī

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

Derived terms

• Aletrīnas
• Aletrīnātēs
• Aletrīnēnsis

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.