# Latium
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium. Doublet of Lazio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleɪ.ʃi.əm/
* Hyphenation: La‧ti‧um
* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

Latium
* (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.
* Lazio, the corresponding modern region.

#### Related terms

* Latial
* Latian
* Latin

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* mulita, ultima, Umtali, Iatmul, Ultima

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.sjɔm/, /la.sjœm/
* Rhymes: -ɔm, -œm

### Proper noun

Latium m
* (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)
* Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

### See also

* 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

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Latium

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlaːtsiʊm]
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Latium n (proper noun, genitive Latiums or (optionally with an article) Latium)
* (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)
* Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

#### Derived terms

* latinisch

### See also

* Abruzzen
* Aostatal
* Apulien
* Basilikata
* Emilia-Romagna
* Friaul-Julisch Venetien
* Kalabrien
* Kampanien
* Latium
* Ligurien
* Lombardei
* Marken
* Molise
* Piemont
* Sardinien
* Sizilien
* Toskana
* Trentino-Südtirol
* Umbrien
* Venetien

## Latin
### Etymology

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, or latus (“side”), being on the central-west side of the Italian peninsula.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈla.ti.um/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlat.t͡si.um/, [ˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

### Proper noun

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

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Derived terms

* Latiālis / Latiar
* Latius
* Latīnus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: Lacio
* Catalan: Laci
* Franco-Provençal: Lacion
* Friulian: Lazi
* Galician: Lacio
* Italian: Lazio
* Ligurian: Lassio
* Lombard: Làsio
* Neapolitan: Lazzio
* Occitan: Laci
* Piedmontese: Lassio
* Portuguese: Lácio
* Sardinian: Làtziu
* Sicilian: Lazziu
* Spanish: Lacio
* Venetan: Łasio

### References

* “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.

### Anagrams

* ultima, ultimā