Aletrium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɫɛ.tri.ũː], [aˈɫɛt.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈlɛː.tri.um], [aˈlɛt.ri.um]

Proper noun

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Alatri

Wikipedia

Aletrium n sg (genitive Aletriī or Aletrī); second declension

1. an ancient Latian town in Italy, originally settled by the Hernici, taken and controlled by the Roman Empire in 306 BC, site of modern Alatri

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Aletrium
genitive	Aletriī Aletrī1
dative	Aletriō
accusative	Aletrium
ablative	Aletriō
vocative	Aletrium
locative	Aletriī

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

Derived terms

• Aletrīnas
• Aletrīnātēs
• Aletrīnēnsis

Related terms

• Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

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.