Paetinus

From paetīnus, from paetus (“blinking, squinting”) +‎ -īnus (“-ine: forming diminutives”), or directly from the cognomen Paetus +‎ -īnus. Compare the similar cognomen pairs Luscus and Luscinus and Laevus and Laevinus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pae̯ˈtiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈt̪iː.nus]

Paetīnus m sg (genitive Paetīnī); second declension

1. a cognomen used by the gentes Fulvia, Articuleia, Tatia, and others

   Marcus Fulvius Curvus Paetinus

    

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.