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Lutetia

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See also: lutetia

English

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Etymology

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From Latin Lutetia.

Proper noun

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Lutetia

  1. An ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris.
  2. (astronomy) 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From the Gaulish word for swamp, from Proto-Celtic *lutā (dirt, mud). See also Welsh lludedic (slimy, muddy) and Old Irish loth (dirt).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Lūtētia f sg (genitive Lūtētiae); first declension

  1. Lutetia (ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris)
  2. Paris (the capital and largest city of modern France)

Usage notes

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Lŭtētia also attested in later inscriptions, as in the hexameter Commoda dum victūs rēgīna Lutētia præbet (Hôtel de Lamoignon, Paris).

Declension

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Lūtētia
genitive Lūtētiae
dative Lūtētiae
accusative Lūtētiam
ablative Lūtētiā
vocative Lūtētia
locative Lūtētiae

Descendants

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  • Ancient Greek: Λευκετία (Leuketía)
  • English: Lutetia

Further reading

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  • Lutetia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lutetia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.