Lutetia

See also: lutetia

English

Etymology

From Latin Lutetia.

Proper noun

Lutetia

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

Synonyms

• (astronomy): 21 Lutetia, ㉑

Derived terms

• Lutetian

Translations

Roman town

• French: Lutèce (fr) f
• Greek: Λουτέτια (el) f (Loutétia), Λουτεσία (el) f (Loutesía)
• Portuguese: Lutécia (pt) f
• Spanish: Lutecia f

Asteroid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 司琴星 (Sīqínxīng)

• Italian: Lutetia
• Russian: Лютеция (ru) (Ljutecija)

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): /luːˈteː.ti.a/, [ɫ̪uːˈt̪eːt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈte.t͡si.a/, [luˈt̪ɛːt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

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

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.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūtētia
Genitive	Lūtētiae
Dative	Lūtētiae
Accusative	Lūtētiam
Ablative	Lūtētiā
Vocative	Lūtētia
Locative	Lūtētiae

Descendants

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

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.