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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hypsaeus m sg (genitive Hypsaeī); second declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Publius Plautius Hypsaeus, a Roman politician
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Hypsaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Hypsaeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Hypsaeus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray