Latium

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
• Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um

Latium

1. (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.
2. Lazio, the corresponding modern region.

• Iatmul, Ultima, mulita, ultima

• IPA^(key): /la.sjɔm/, /la.sjœm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm, -œm

Latium m

1. Latium (ancient region)
2. Lazio (modern region)

Probably a loanword from an ancient non-Indo-European language, possibly related to Etruscan, but it has also been linked to lātus (“wide”), a reference to the flat land, or latus (“side”), being on the central-west side of the Italian peninsula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Latium n sg (genitive Latiī or Latī); second declension

1. Latium

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

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

• Latiālis/ Latiar
• Latius
• Latīnus

• Vulgar Latin: *Lazio
  • Asturian: Lacio
  • Catalan: Laci
  • Spanish: Lacio
  • Franco-Provençal: Lacion
  • Galician: Lacio
  • Italian: Lazio
  • Korean: 라티움 (Ratium)
  • Lombard: Làsio
  • Neapolitan: Lazzio
  • Piedmontese: Lassio
  • Portuguese: Lácio
  • Sicilian: Lazziu

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

• ultima, ultimā