Roscius

Likely from rōscidus (“dewy, moist”), from rōs (“dew, moisture”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈroːs.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔʃ.ʃi.us]

Rōscius m sg (genitive Rōsciī or Rōscī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Lucius Roscius Fabatus, a Roman politician
   2. Lucius Roscius Otho, a Roman tribune

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Roscia
• Rosciānus

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