Horatio

From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ

Horatio (plural Horatios)

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], signature D, verso:

     There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,
     Then are Dream’t of, in your philoſophie, […]

• Horace

Horātiō

1. dative/ablative singular of Horātius