Aletrium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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

  1. A Latian town in Italy, originally settled by the Hernici, 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
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

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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