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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gargōnius m sg (genitive Gargōniī or Gargōnī); second declension
- a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
- Gaius Gargonius, a Roman eques
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “C. Gargonius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray