Eutropius

From Ancient Greek εὔτροπος (eútropos, “morally good”) +‎ -ius (masculine name suffix), the former from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ τρόπος (trópos, “way, manner”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛu̯ˈtrɔ.pi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eu̯ˈt̪rɔː.pi.us]

Eutropius m sg (genitive Eutropiī or Eutropī); second declension

1. Flavius Eutropius (Roman historian)
   • 380 CE – 392 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.36:

      […], Eutropius Asiam proconsulari tunc obtinens potestate, ut factionis conscius arcessitus in crimen, […]

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “Eutropius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press