Firmius

From firmus (“stable, firm”) +‎ -ius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɪr.mi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfir.mi.us]

Firmius m sg (genitive Firmiī or Firmī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Firmius Cato, one of the accusers of Marcus Scribonius Libo

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Firmiānus

• “Firmius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Firmius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.