letum
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proposed derivations include:
- Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to flow”) (cognate with lītus).
- Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (cognate with λύω (lúō)).
- Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to let, leave”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (laizzi, “lets”))
Compare also Latin dēleō and linō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈleː.tum/, [ˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.tum/, [ˈlɛːt̪um]
Noun
[edit]lētum n (genitive lētī); second declension
- violent death, annihilation, killing
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.465–466:
- Crassus ad Euphrāten aquilās nātumque suōsque
perdidit et lētō est ultimus ipse datus.- Crassus, at the Euphrates, lost his eagles, his son, and his [army], and was himself finally given to death.
(See: Marcus Licinius Crassus; Euphrates; Aquila (Roman).)
- Crassus, at the Euphrates, lost his eagles, his son, and his [army], and was himself finally given to death.
- Crassus ad Euphrāten aquilās nātumque suōsque
- ruin
- Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, ruīna, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, pestis, devāstātiō, perniciēs, perditiō, exitium
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lētum | lēta |
| genitive | lētī | lētōrum |
| dative | lētō | lētīs |
| accusative | lētum | lēta |
| ablative | lētō | lētīs |
| vocative | lētum | lēta |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “letum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “letum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- letum 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)
- letum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.