Eleusium

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Latin

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Etymology

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Proper noun

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Eleusium m sg (genitive Eleusiī or Eleusī); second declension

  1. a male given name, character in the play Aulularia of Plautus

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

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

References

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