Paetus

From paetus (“blinking, squinting”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpae̯.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.t̪us]

Paetus m sg (genitive Paetī); second declension

1. a cognomen of the gentes Aelia, Autronia, Castrinia, and others

   Publius Aelius Paetus

    

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Paetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Paetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.