Horatio
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English
Etymology
From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ
Proper noun
Horatio (plural Horatios)
- A male given name from Latin.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: (First Quarto), London: [Valentine Simmes] for N L and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], signature D, verso:
- There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio,
Then are Dream’t of, in your philoſophie, […]
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Latin
Proper noun
Horātiō