Lavinium

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”), meaning "a bathing-place (for animals)". Synchronically derived from Lavīnum, an alternative form of the town's name. Roman legend derives it from Lā̆vīnia, daughter of the king of the Latins and wife of Aeneas.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laːˈu̯iː.ni.um/, [ɫ̪äːˈu̯iːniʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /laˈu̯iː.ni.um/, [ɫ̪äˈu̯iːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈvi.ni.um/, [läˈviːnium]

Note: the first vowel in this form always scans long in dactylic poetry, but always short in the alternative form Lavīnum.

Proper noun

Lā̆vīnium n sg (genitive Lā̆vīniī or Lā̆vīnī); second declension

1. port city near Rome, legendarily founded by Aeneas

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Lā̆vīnium
genitive	Lā̆vīniī Lā̆vīnī1
dative	Lā̆vīniō
accusative	Lā̆vīnium
ablative	Lā̆vīniō
vocative	Lā̆vīnium
locative	Lā̆vīniī

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

Derived terms

• Lā̆vīnienses

Descendants

• Italian: Lavinio
• Ancient Greek: Λαουΐνιον (Laouḯnion)

References

• “Lavinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press