Virginius

Alteration of Verginius, possibly by folk etymology association with virgō (“maiden”). Compare the similar change from Vergilius to later Virgilius.

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

Virginius m (genitive Virginiī or Virginī, feminine Virginia); second declension

1. alternative form of Verginius

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Virginia

• “Virginius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Virginius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Virginius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray