Virgilius

From Vergilius; altered in spelling possibly by folk-etymological association with virga (“rod, wand”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪrˈɡɪ.li.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [virˈd͡ʒiː.li.us]

Virgilius m sg (genitive Virgiliī or Virgilī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, proscribed) Later spelling of Vergilius

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “Virgilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Virgilius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers