Latium

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

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

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Latium

2. (historical) A historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
3. (archaic or rare) Lazio: A modern administrative region of central Italy.

• Latial
• Latian
• Latin

• mulita, ultima, Umtali, Iatmul, Ultima

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

Latium m

1. (historical) Latium (a historical 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 (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

Learned borrowing from Latin Latium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːtsi̯ʊm/, [ˈlaː.t͡si.ʊm], [ˈlaː.t͡sjʊm]

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Latium n (proper noun, genitive Latiums or (optionally with an article) Latium)

1. (historical) Latium (a historical 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 (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

• Latiner, latinisch
• Latein, Lateiner, lateinisch

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

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

1. (historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)

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

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

• Latiālis / Latiar
• Latius
• Latīnus

• “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