Latium

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

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

Latium

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

• Iatmul, Ultima, mulita, ultima

• IPA^(key): /la.sjɔm/, /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)

• (administrative regions of Italy) Régions d’Italie; Abruzzes, Basilicate, Calabre, Campanie, Émilie-Romagne, Frioul-Vénétie julienne, Latium, Ligurie, Lombardie, Marches, Molise, Ombrie, Piémont, Pouilles, Sardaigne, Sicile, Toscane, Trentin-Haut-Adige, Vallée d’Aoste, Vénétie ^{(Category: fr:Administrative regions of Italy)}

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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

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

• Asturian: Lacio
• Catalan: Laci
• Spanish: Lacio
• Franco-Provençal: Lacion
• Galician: Lacio
• Italian: Lazio
• 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