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Latin
Etymology
From paetus (“blinking, squinting”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Paetus m sg (genitive Paetī); second declension
- a cognomen of the gentes Aelia, Autronia, Castrinia, and others
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Paetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Paetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.