Latin

Noun

lētum n ‎(genitive lētī); second declension

1. violent death, annihilation, killing
2. ruin

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• lētālis
• lētifer

References

• letum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• letum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LETUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “letum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.