Balventius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /balˈu̯en.ti.us/, [bäɫ̪ˈu̯ɛn̪t̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /balˈven.t͡si.us/, [bälˈvɛnt̪͡s̪ius]

Proper noun

Balventius m (genitive Balventiī or Balventī); second declension

1. A Roman nomen gentilicium, gens or "family name" is known chiefly from a person by:
   1. Titus Balventius, a Primus pilus in the command of Quintus Titurius Sabinus in Gaul.
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.35:

     Tum Tito Balventio, qui superiore anno primum pilum duxerat, viro forti et magnae auctoritatis, utrumque femur tragula traicitur;

     At length, each thigh of T. Balventius, who the year before had been chief centurion, a brave man and one of great authority, is pierced with a javelin;

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Balventius	Balventiī
genitive	Balventiī Balventī1	Balventiōrum
dative	Balventiō	Balventiīs
accusative	Balventium	Balventiōs
ablative	Balventiō	Balventiīs
vocative	Balventī	Balventiī

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