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Latin
Etymology
From glaber (“smooth, hairless”) + -iō (“forming related nouns and adjectives”). First attested as a cognomen for the new man M'. Acilius Glabrio, consul in 191 BC and victor over Antiochus III at Thermopylae.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Glabriō m sg (genitive Glabriōnis); third declension
- A Roman cognomen of the gens Acilia.
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
See also
References
- “Glabrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Glabrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.