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Latin
Etymology
Alteration of Verginius, possibly by folk etymology association with virgō (“maiden”). Compare the similar change from Vergilius to later Virgilius.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Virginius m (genitive Virginiī or Virginī, feminine Virginia); second declension
- Alternative form of Verginius
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- “Virginius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Virginius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Virginius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray