Tatius

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Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tatius m sg (genitive Tatiī or Tatī); second declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Titus Tatius, mythological king of the Sabini, later on the joint ruler with Romulus in young Rome
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10.1:
      nec domī tantum indignātiōnēs continēbant, sed congregābantur undique ad T(itum) Tatium, rēgem Sabīnōrum, et lēgātiōnēs eō, quod maximum Tatī nōmen in īs regiōnibus erat, conveniēbant.
    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales :
      ō Tite, tūte, Tatī, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulistī
      pectora

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Tatius
genitive Tatiī
Tatī1
dative Tatiō
accusative Tatium
ablative Tatiō
vocative Tatī

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

Descendants

  • Italian: Tazio

References

  • Tatius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Tatius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • Tatius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press