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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑγῖνος (Hugînos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hygīnus m sg (genitive Hygīnī); second declension
- A Roman surname
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Hyginus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Hyginus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Hyginus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Hyginus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray