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Latin
Etymology
From Acīlius + -ānus (suffix forming an adjective of belonging or origin).
Adjective
Acīliānus (feminine Acīliāna, neuter Acīliānum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to Acīlius (a Roman name)
prior to 17 C.E., Livy [i.e., Titus Livius], translated by Frank Gardener Moore, Livy, with an English Translation, volumes 6 (Books XXIII–XXV), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 1940, book 25, chapter 39, from line 12, pages 492–3, Perseus Digital Library:Ad triginta septem milia hostium caesa auctor est Claudius, qui annales Acilianos ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem vertit, captos ad mille octingentos triginta, praedam ingentem partam;- That about thirty-seven thousand of the enemy were slain is the statement of Claudius, who translated Acilius' annals out of Greek into the Latin language; that about one thousand eight hundred and thirty were captured and a vast amount of booty taken.
prior to 17 C.E., Livy [i.e., Titus Livius], translated by Evan T. Sage, Livy, with an English Translation, volumes 10 (Books XXXV–XXXVII), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 1935, book 35, chapter 14, from line 5, pages 40–2, Perseus Digital Library:Claudius, secutus Graecos Acilianos libros, P. Africanum in ea fuisse legatione tradit eumque Ephesi collocutum cum Hannibale, […]- Claudius, following the Greek history of Acilius, reports that Publius Africanus was a member of that embassy and that at Ephesus he conferred with Hannibal,
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.