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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Doric Greek Σκιπιάδᾱς (Skipiádās), derived from Ancient Greek Σκιπίων (Skipíōn), itself a borrowing from Latin Scīpiō.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Scīpiadās m (genitive Scīpiadae); first declension
- (poetic) a member of the Scipio family, usually referring to Scipio Africanus and his close relatives
70 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Georgics 2.170:
- Scipiadas duros bello et te, maxime Caesar, qui nunc extremis Asiae iam uictor in oris imbellem auertis Romanis arcibus Indum.
480 C.E. – 524 C.E.,
Boethius,
Commentaria in Porphyrium 2.3:
- Item in illa prima significationis multitudine huius secundae particularitas continetur, ut in Romanorum genere Scipiadarum genus, natura cum sunt Romani Scipiadae sunt.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
References
- “Scīpĭădas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Scīpĭădās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1403.
- Scīpiadās in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung