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Latin
Etymology
prūdēns (“wise”, “prudent”, oblique stem: prūdent-) + -ius
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Prūdentius m sg (genitive Prūdentiī or Prūdentī); second declension
- A masculine nomen — famously held by:
- Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (AD 348–413), a Roman Christian poet of Calagurris, in Spain
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “Prūdentĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Prūdentĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,269/2.
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