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Latin
Etymology
Possibly from silex (“flint”) + -ius.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Silicius m sg (genitive Siliciī or Silicī); second declension
- a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
- Publius Silicius Coronas, a Roman senator
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “P. Silicius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray