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Latin
Etymology
From Vergilius; altered in spelling possibly by folk-etymological association with virga (“rod, wand”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Virgilius m sg (genitive Virgiliī or Virgilī); second declension
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, proscribed) Later spelling of Vergilius
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Virgilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Virgilius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers