Lucretius

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English

Etymology

From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

Proper noun

Lucretius

  1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
  2. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “Lucretius”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lucrētius m sg (genitive Lucrētiī or Lucrētī); second declension

  1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
    1. Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet
    2. Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus a Roman consul

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Lucrētius
genitive Lucrētiī
Lucrētī1
dative Lucrētiō
accusative Lucrētium
ablative Lucrētiō
vocative Lucrētī

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

Derived terms

References

  • “Lucretius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lucretius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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