Aletium

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈleː.ti.um/, [äˈɫ̪eːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlet.t͡si.um/, [äˈlɛt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

Alētium n sg (genitive Alētiī or Alētī); second declension

1. A town of the Salentini in the interior of Calabria

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Alētium
genitive	Alētiī Alētī1
dative	Alētiō
accusative	Alētium
ablative	Alētiō
vocative	Alētium
locative	Alētiī

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

Derived terms

• Alētīnus

References

• “Aletium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Aletium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.