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Latium
Latium
English
Latium
Proper noun
Latium
- (historical) A region of central Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire
Translations
region of central Italy
Latin
Etymology
Probably a loanword from an ancient non-Indo-European language, but it has also been linked to latus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land.
Proper noun
Latium n (genitive Latiī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension, with locative.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Latium |
| genitive | Latiī |
| dative | Latiō |
| accusative | Latium |
| ablative | Latiō |
| vocative | Latium |
| locative | Latiī |
Derived terms
References
- Latium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Latium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.