Lactantius

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lactāns (“suckling”) +‎ -ius.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lactantius m sg (genitive Lactantiī or Lactantī); second declension

  1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (circa AD 250–325), a celebrated father of the Church, famous for the purity of his Latin style, and sometimes called the Christian Cicero

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Lactantius
genitive Lactantiī
Lactantī1
dative Lactantiō
accusative Lactantium
ablative Lactantiō
vocative Lactantī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • French: Lactance

References

  • “Lactantĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lactantĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 881/1.
  1. ^ Kajanto, Iiro (1966) Supernomina: A Study in Latin Epigraphy, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, pages 56–57

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