Vergilius
Latin
Alternative forms
- Virgilius (late and mediaeval Latin)
Etymology
From Vergilus + -ius, from Etruscan.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛrˈɡɪ.li.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [verˈd͡ʒiː.li.us]
Proper noun
Vergilius m sg (genitive Vergiliī or Vergilī); second declension
- The poet Publius Vergilius Maro, known in English as Virgil.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Vergilius |
| genitive | Vergiliī Vergilī1 |
| dative | Vergiliō |
| accusative | Vergilium |
| ablative | Vergiliō |
| vocative | Vergilī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: Virxiliu
- → Basque: Virgilio
- → Catalan: Virgili
- → Dutch: Vergilius
- → French: Virgile
- → Galician: Virxilio
- → German: Vergil
- → Italian: Virgilio
- → Middle English: Vyrgyle
- English: Virgil
- → Occitan: Virgili
- → Portuguese: Virgílio
- → Spanish: Virgilio
- → Tagalog: Virgilio
References
- ^ VIRGIL, VIRGILE, VIRGILIUS - http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/garland/deweever/UV/virgil.htm
- “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers