Quirinus

From Latin Quirīnus.

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈɹaɪ.nəs/

Quirinus

1. (Roman mythology) An early Roman deity of possibly Sabine origin.

From the Sabine town Curēs, or from quirīs (“citizen”). Falsely derived, some say, from curīs (“spear”) and cūria (“court”). See also Quirītēs.

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

Quirīnus m sg (genitive Quirīnī); second declension

1. a Roman god of the state
2. (Roman mythology) of Romulus after his deification; Quirinus
3. (Roman mythology) of Janus
4. (poetic) of Augustus
5. (poetic) of Mark Antony

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• quirīnus
• quirīnālis
• Quirīnālia

• English: Quirinus
• Italian: Quirino
• Portuguese: Quirino

• “Quirinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Quirinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Quirinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.