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Ilium is a Latin name for the ancient city we usually call Troy, in what is now western Turkey. Poets and historians used it, and the long Greek poem the Iliad takes its name from the city — it is the story of the war at Ilium. In English today you meet Ilium in myth, literature, and archaeology, not in ordinary talk; people say Troy when they mean the place over coffee. Though actually, English also has a medical word ilium (same spelling, often with a small i) for a bone in the hip. That is a different word, from a Latin word for the side of the body, not from the city’s name. If you are reading about gods, walls, and wooden horses, you want this Ilium.
伊利翁（特洛伊城的拉丁名）
組成Borrowed from Latin Īlium, from Ancient Greek Ἴλιον (Ilion), an old name for Troy. Old verse suggests the Greek name once began with a w-sound (Wilion). Many scholars identify that with the Hittite place-name Wilusa. A very old root behind it may also be related to English wold, an old word for open high land. On the surface the Latin looks like Ili- + -um.
同家族的字
- Iliadthe Greek poem named after Ilium (Troy)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Iliumname/ˈɪli.əm/
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Troy.
iliumnoun/ˈɪlɪəm/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone.
- Holonyms: hip bone, os coxae < pelvis
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obsoleteanatomymedicinesciencesThe ileum, part of the small intestine (in modern usage, misspelling of ileum).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。