Aletrium
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]There is no agreed upon etymology. Indo-European, Semitic, and Etruscan origins have been suggested.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (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
[edit]Aletrium n sg (genitive Aletriī or Aletrī); second declension
- 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
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
singular | |
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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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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.