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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σύμμαχος (Súmmakhos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Symmachus m sg (genitive Symmachī); second declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman orator
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Symmachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Symmachus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.