Orcivius

• Orchivius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔrˈkɪ.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈt͡ʃiː.vi.us]

Orcivius m sg (genitive Orciviī or Orcivī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
   1. Gaius Orcivius, a Roman praetor

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “C. Orcivius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Orchivius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.