letum

Proposed derivations include:

• Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to flow”) (cognate with lītus).
• Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (cognate with λύω (lúō)).
• Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“to let, leave”) (cognate with Hittite [script needed] (laizzi, “lets”))

Compare also Latin dēleō and linō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈleː.tum/, [ˈɫeː.tʊ̃]

lētum n (genitive lētī); second declension

1. violent death, annihilation, killing
2. ruin

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• lēthum

• lētālis
• lētifer

• letum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• letum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• letum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• letum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette