Velitrae

Uncertain; has been explained as Etruscan, from the same stem as Latin Volsiniī and Volscī. Reflected as Ancient Greek Οὐέλιτραι (Ouélitrai).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.lɪ.trae̯], [wɛˈlɪt.rae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.li.t̪re], [veˈlit̪.re]
• Note: the second syllable scans as heavy in the only two occurrences in hexameter poetry by Silius Italicus.^[1] However, the Ancient Greek and the modern form of the name suggest the vowel was actually short. The heavy scansion may result from the freedom to syllabify intervocalic [tr] as [t.r] in poetry, or perhaps poetic lengthening of the vowel.

Velī̆trae f pl (genitive Velī̆trārum); first declension

1. a city in Latium, situated on the southern slope of the Alban hills, now Velletri

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Velī̆ternīnus
• Velī̆ternī
• Velī̆ternus

• Italian: Vellétri; Vellétre (locally)

• “Velitrae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Velitrae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Velitrae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.