Aletrium

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

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

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

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

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

• Aletrīnas
• Aletrīnātēs
• Aletrīnēnsis

• Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

• Italian: Alatri
• → Ancient Greek: Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion)

• “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.