archisolium

Latin

archi- (“arch-, highest”) +‎ solium (“seat, throne”)

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.kiˈso.li.um/, [ärkiˈs̬ɔːlium]

archisolium n (genitive archisoliī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) principal royal seat, capital city
- a. 1223, Otto von St. Blasien, Chronica, chapter 34:
  Hac itaque relaxatione recreato exercitu Iconium versus, tocius Cilicie metropolim soldanique archisolium, aciem direxit eamque inaudita celeritate expugnavit.
  The army having thus been reinvigorated by this relaxation, he arrayed his men against Iconium, the metropolis of all Cilicia and the sultan's capital city, and stormed it with unheard-of speed.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “archisolium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

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