Lutetia

Borrowed from Latin Lutetia.

• IPA^(key): /luːˈtiːʃə/, /luːˈtiːʃi.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːʃə

Lutetia

2. An ancient Roman city and island in what is now modern France, on the site of what is now Paris.
4. (poetic) Paris.
6. (astronomy) 21 Lutetia, a main belt asteroid.

   Synonym: ㉑ (symbol)

• Lutetian
• lutetium

• lautite, lituate

From the Gaulish word for “swamp”, from Proto-Celtic *lutā (“dirt, mud”). See also Welsh lludedic (“slimy, muddy”) and Old Irish loth (“dirt”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːˈteː.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈtɛː.t͡si.a]

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)

Lŭtētia also attested in later inscriptions, as in the hexameter Commoda dum victūs rēgīna Lutētia præbet (Hôtel de Lamoignon, Paris).

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → Ancient Greek: Λευκετία (Leuketía)
• Catalan: Lutècia
• → English: Lutetia
• French: Lutèce
• Italian: Lutezia
• Occitan: Lutècia
• Portuguese: Lutécia
• Spanish: Lutecia

• “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.