Suetonius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʷeːˈtoː.ni.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sʷeˈt̪ɔː.ni.us]

Suētōnius m sg (genitive Suētōniī or Suētōnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman historian

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Suētōnia

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