Aletrium

Latin

Etymology

There is no agreed upon etymology. Indo-European, Semitic, and Etruscan origins have been suggested.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈleː.tri.um/, [äˈɫ̪eːt̪riʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈle.tri.um/, [äˈlɛːt̪rium]

Proper noun

Alētrium n sg (genitive Alētriī or Alētrī); second declension

  1. (geography) A Latian town originally settled by the Hernicī, taken and controlled by a the Roman Empire in 306 BC, site of modern Alatri

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Alētrium
Genitive Alētriī
Alētrī1
Dative Alētriō
Accusative Alētrium
Ablative Alētriō
Vocative Alētrium
Locative Alētriī

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Italian: Alatri

References
  • “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
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