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Latin
Etymology
From Scaeva (“agnomen & cognomen”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”), from scaevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; very lucky or unlucky”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Scaevius m sg (genitive Scaeviī or Scaevī); second declension
- a nomen (nomen gentile), a plebeian Roman family name
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
See also
References
- “P. Scaevius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray