Statius

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Latin

Etymology

Chiefly attested as a Samnite name, hence probably from Oscan šŒ”šŒ•šŒ€šŒ€šŒ•šŒ‰(šŒ‰)šŒ” (staati(i)s).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Stātius m (genitive StātiÄ« or StātÄ«); second declension

  1. A masculine praenomen, famously held by:
    Statius Gellius, a Samnite general
  2. A Roman cognomen ā€” famously held by:
    1. Publius Papinius Statius, a Roman poet
    2. Caecilius Statius, a Roman comic poet

Declension

Second-declension noun.

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Italian: Stazio

References

  • ā€œStatiusā€, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Statius in Gaffiot, FĆ©lix (1934) Dictionnaire illustrĆ© latin-franƧais, Hachette.