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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Stadius m sg (genitive Stadiī or Stadī); second declension
- a male given name
- ante AD 62, Aulus Persius Flaccus (author), Charles William Stocker (editor), Satire VI in The Satires of Juvenal and Persius, from the texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English notes, partly compiled, and partly original (second edition, 1839), page 454, lines 65–69:
- Ubi sit, fuge quærere, quod mihi quondam // Legârat Stadius; neu dicta repone paterna,— // ‘Feneris accedat merces; hinc exime sumtus!’ // “Quid reliquum est?” Reliquum? nunc, nunc impensius unge, // Unge, puer, caules.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Stadius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Stădĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,473/2.