Hirtius

From hirtus (“hairy, shaggy”) +‎ -ius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhiːr.ti.ʊs], [ˈhɪr.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈir.t̪͡s̪i.us]

Hī̆rtius m sg (genitive Hī̆rtiī or Hī̆rtī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Aulus Hirtius, a Roman consul

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Hirtia
• Hirtiānus
• Hirtīnus

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