meditullium

From medius (“middle”) + *tollium; see tellūs.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈtul.li.um/, [mɛd̪ɪˈt̪ʊlːʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈtul.li.um/, [med̪iˈt̪ulːium]

meditullium n (genitive meditulliī or meditullī); second declension

1. the part of a land or country which is isolated from the sea; inland, interior
2. the middle or center of something

   Synonyms: medietās, medium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “meditullium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meditullium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meditullium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.