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Latin
Etymology
From German Hevel + -ius.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hevelius m sg (genitive Heveliī or Hevelī); second declension
- a male surname from German — famously held by:
- Johannes Hevelius, a Polish astronomer of German ancestry.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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