Plautus
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English
Etymology
From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (“flat-footed, flap-eared”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plautus
- A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
Related terms
Translations
Roman comic playwright
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From plautus (“flat-footed; flap-eared”). In the case of the comic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, sometimes said to be a personal agnomen from Umbrian dialect plōtus and sometimes self-styled as a stage name.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plautus m sg (genitive Plautī); second declension
- Plautus, a famous Roman comic playwright
- Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget...
- Since deft Plautus is dead, Comedy grieves...
- a cognomen used by the gentes Bellia, Rubellia, Sergia, and others
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Plautus |
| genitive | Plautī |
| dative | Plautō |
| accusative | Plautum |
| ablative | Plautō |
| vocative | Plaute |
Descendants
References
- “Plautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Plautus 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. 110.