Lavinium

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”), meaning "a bathing-place (for animals)". Synchronically derived from Lavīnum, an alternative form of the town's name. Roman legend derives it from Lā̆vīnia, daughter of the king of the Latins and wife of Aeneas. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫaːˈwiː.ni.ũː], [ɫaˈwiː.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [laˈviː.ni.um] Note: the first vowel in this form always scans long in dactylic poetry, but always short in the alternative form Lavīnum. === Proper noun === Lā̆vīnium n sg (genitive Lā̆vīniī or Lā̆vīnī); second declension port city near Rome, legendarily founded by Aeneas ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Lā̆vīnienses ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Lavinio Ancient Greek: Λαουΐνιον (Laouḯnion) === References === “Lavinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press