Ovidius

Latin

Etymology

From ovis (“sheep”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈwɪ.di.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈviː.d̪i.us]

Proper noun

Ovidius m (genitive Ovidiī or Ovidī); second declension

The name of a Roman gēns.
The Roman poet Ovid.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Ovidius	Ovidiī
genitive	Ovidiī Ovidī¹	Ovidiōrum
dative	Ovidiō	Ovidiīs
accusative	Ovidium	Ovidiōs
ablative	Ovidiō	Ovidiīs
vocative	Ovidī	Ovidiī

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

Descendants

→ Armenian: Օվիդիուս (Ōvidius)
→ Catalan: Ovidi
→ English: Ovid
→ French: Ovide
→ Irish: Óivid
→ Italian: Ovidio
→ Portuguese: Ovídio
→ Romanian: Ovidiu
→ Russian: Овидий (Ovidij)
→ Spanish: Ovidio
→ Ukrainian: Овідій (Ovidij)
→ Welsh: Ofydd

References

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