verutum

From verū (“javelin, dart”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈruː.tum/, [u̯ɛˈruːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈru.tum/, [veˈruːt̪um]

verūtum n (genitive verūtī); second declension

1. A light javelin used primarily by the Vēlitēs.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• veru
• verūtus

• pīlum
• lancea
• spīculum

• “verutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verutum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• verutum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carr, Thomas Swinburne (1836). A manual of Roman antiquities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 234 note.
• Glossary of Latin Words, Bible History Online. (File retrieved 10-19-07)