Vitruvius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vitrūvius m sg (genitive Vitrūviī or Vitrūvī); second declension

  1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
    1. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Vitrūvius
Genitive Vitrūviī
Vitrūvī1
Dative Vitrūviō
Accusative Vitrūvium
Ablative Vitrūviō
Vocative Vitrūvī

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

Derived terms
  • Vitrūvia

Descendants
  • Armenian: Վիտրուվիոս (Vitruvios)
  • Catalan: Vitruvi
  • French: Vitruve
  • German: Vitruv
  • Italian: Vitruvio
  • Latvian: Vitrūvijs
  • Lithuanian: Vitruvijus
  • Polish: Witruwiusz
  • Portuguese: Vitrúvio
  • Romanian: Vitruviu
  • Russian: Витру́вий (Vitrúvij)
  • Spanish: Vitruvio

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