Bethlehemum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Bēthleëm, Bēthlēēm, Bēthlehem, Bēthlem === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Biblical Hebrew בּית לחם (Bet Léchem). The Ancient Greek etymon and all the other forms of this word are indeclinable; Bēthlehēmum was adapted to decline as a neuter proper noun of the second declension. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [beːtʰ.ɫeˈ(ɦ)eː.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bet.leˈɛː.mum] === Proper noun === Bēthlehēmum n sg (genitive Bēthlehēmī); second declension Bethlehem (a town of the tribe of Judah, the birthplace of David and of Christ, now Bēt Laḥm) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. ==== Synonyms ==== (Bethlehem): Ephrāta ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: bedlam, Bethlehem === References === “Bēthlĕhēmum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press === Further reading === Bethleem on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la