Ultraiectum

• Ultrajectum

Blend of ultra (“beyond”), a phonetic Latinisation of Old Dutch ūt (“out”) + Traiectum, the name of the ancient Roman fort at the city, from traiectus (“crossing”). See Dutch Utrecht.

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ul̪.t̪raˈjɛk.t̪um]

Ultraiectum n sg (genitive Ultraiectī); second declension (Medieval Latin, New Latin)

1. Utrecht (a city and municipality, the capital of Utrecht province, Netherlands)
   • 1688, Heinrich Meibom, Rerum Germanicarum Libri III, page 383:

     Anno Domini MCXXV. feria quinta post Pentecosten in Ultrajecto Henricus imperator moritur […]

     In the year of the lord 1125, on the Thursday after Pentecost, Emperor Henry died in Utrecht […]

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

• Traiectum, Traiectum ad Rhenum