Aurelius

From Latin Aurēlius.

Aurelius

1. A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.
   • 1992, Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 169:

     Would the name Marcus Aurelius have meant anything to him? In all probability, he would have thought it a fancy name for a black slave.

From aurum (“gold”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈreː.li.us/, [äu̯ˈreːlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈre.li.us/, [äu̯ˈrɛːlius]

Aurēlius m (genitive Aurēliī or Aurēlī, feminine Aurēlia); second declension

1. Name of a plebeian Roman gens.
2. a male given name

Second-declension noun.

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

• Aurelia

• → Ancient Greek: Αὐρήλιος (Aurḗlios)
  • Greek: Αυρήλιος (Avrílios)
• → French: Aurèle
• → Irish: Áiréilias
• → Italian: Aurelio
• → Portuguese: Aurélio
• → Romanian: Aureliu
• → Spanish: Aurelio

• “Aurelius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Aurelius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.