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Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Suggested sources include *apicus from Ancient Greek ἄποκος (ápokos, “hairless”) or ἄποικος (ápoikos, “colonist”), or apex via *apicō, thus meaning “priest, one who wears a conical hat”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Apīcius m sg (genitive Apīciī or Apīcī); second declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- “Apicius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Apicius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.