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German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plinius
- Pliny
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From the Roman gens Plinia, an Italic name of obscure origin; possibly from the Insubric (Gaulish) root Plina through rhotacism from prina, or from a north Italic word for “bald”.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plīnius m sg (genitive Plīniī or Plīnī); second declension
- a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
- Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants
References
- “Plinius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Plinius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Pokorny, Julius. "Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch" (in German). University of Leiden.