Critonius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kriˈtoː.ni.us/, [krɪˈt̪oːniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kriˈto.ni.us/, [kriˈt̪ɔːnius]

Proper noun

Critōnius m sg (genitive Critōniī or Critōnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Lucius Critonius, a Roman aedilis

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Critōnius
genitive	Critōniī Critōnī1
dative	Critōniō
accusative	Critōnium
ablative	Critōniō
vocative	Critōnī

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

References

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