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English
Etymology
From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós). Doublet of Attic.
Proper noun
Atticus
- A male given name from Latin.
1960, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, Random House, published 2014, →ISBN:... yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a clipped Attica + -icus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Atticus (feminine Attica, neuter Atticum, adverb Atticē); first/second-declension adjective
- (in general) of or pertaining to Attica or Athens, Attic, Athenian
- (appellative) designating the highest grade of style, philosophy, eloquence, etc.
- (transferred sense) excellent, preeminent, preferable
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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Proper noun
Atticus m sg (genitive Atticī, feminine Attica); second declension
- a male cognomen
- T. Pomponius Atticus (110–32 B.C.E.), close friend of and famed correspondent with M. Tullius Cicero
- a friend of P. Ovidius Naso
- Antonius Atticus (C.E. 1st century), Latin rhetorician
- Vipsanius Atticus (C.E. 1st or 2nd century), buried at Catina in Sicilia
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
Further reading
- “Attĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Attĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3.