Orfius

Unknown. It may be connected to Oscan 𐌖𐌓𐌖𐌅𐌉𐌉𐌔 (uruviis) and Pre-Samnite 𐌖𐌓𐌖𐌚𐌉𐌄𐌉𐌔, although the reading of the Pre-Samnite term is disputed and thus its potential etymology is uncertain.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.fi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.fi.us]

Orfius m sg (genitive Orfiī or Orfī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Orfius, a Roman tribune

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “M. O'rfius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Karin W. Tikkanen (2020) “The Creation of the Oscan Alphabet”, in James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair, editor, Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge Classical Studies)‎^[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
• Olli Salomies (2012) “The Nomina of the Samnites. A Checklist”, in Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica‎^[2] (in Pre-Samnite), volume 46, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 137–185
• Vincent Martzloff (1 January 2020) Consonant clusters in South Picene: Synchrony and Diachrony‎^[3] (quotation in English; overall work in English)