Carteius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /karˈtei̯.i̯us/, [kärˈt̪ɛi̯ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈte.jus/, [kärˈt̪ɛːjus]

Proper noun

Carteius m sg (genitive Carteiī or Carteī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Lucius Carteius, a friend of Gaius Cassius Longinus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Carteius
genitive	Carteiī Carteī1
dative	Carteiō
accusative	Carteium
ablative	Carteiō
vocative	Carteī

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

References

• “L. Carteius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray