Lutetia

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Lutetia. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /luːˈtiːʃə/, /luːˈtiːʃi.ə/ Rhymes: -iːʃə === Proper noun === Lutetia An ancient Roman city and island in what is now modern France, on the site of what is now Paris. (poetic) Paris. (astronomy) 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid. Synonym: ㉑ (symbol) ==== Derived terms ==== Lutetian lutetium ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Anagrams === lautite, lituate == Latin == === Etymology === From the Gaulish word for “swamp”, from Proto-Celtic *lutā (“dirt, mud”). See also Welsh lludedic (“slimy, muddy”) and Old Irish loth (“dirt”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫuːˈteː.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [luˈtɛː.t͡si.a] === Proper noun === Lūtētia f sg (genitive Lūtētiae); first declension Lutetia (ancient Roman city and island in modern France; modern Paris) Paris (the capital and largest city of modern France) ==== Usage notes ==== Lŭtētia also attested in later inscriptions, as in the hexameter Commoda dum victūs rēgīna Lutētia præbet (Hôtel de Lamoignon, Paris). ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== → Ancient Greek: Λευκετία (Leuketía) Catalan: Lutècia → English: Lutetia French: Lutèce Italian: Lutezia Occitan: Lutècia Portuguese: Lutécia Spanish: Lutecia === Further reading === “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.