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Latin
Etymology
Possibly a Latinized Etruscan name.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Horātius m (genitive Horātiī or Horātī); second declension
- The name of a Roman gēns.
- The Roman poet Horace.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “Horatius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Horatius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.