Velitrae

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Velitrae. === Proper noun === Velitrae A city in Latium, situated on the southern slope of the Alban hills, now Velletri ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain; has been explained as Etruscan, from the same stem as Latin Volsiniī and Volscī. Reflected as Ancient Greek Οὐέλιτραι (Ouélitrai). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛ.lɪ.trae̯], [wɛˈlɪt.rae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.li.tre], [veˈlit.re] Note: the second syllable scans as heavy in the only two occurrences in hexameter poetry by Silius Italicus. 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. === Proper noun === Velī̆trae f pl (genitive Velī̆trārum); first declension Velitrae (a city in Latium, situated on the southern slope of the Alban hills, now Velletri) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, plural only. ==== Derived terms ==== Velī̆ternīnus Velī̆ternī Velī̆ternus ==== Descendants ==== → English: Velitrae French: Vélitres Italian: Vellétri; Vellétre (locally) === References === === Further reading === “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.