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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Stātius Stātiī
Genitive Stātiī
Stātī1 		Stātiōrum
Dative Stātiō Stātiīs
Accusative Stātium Stātiōs
Ablative Stātiō Stātiīs
Vocative Stātī Stātiī

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.
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