Eugenius

See also: eugenius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Yevgeny.

Proper noun

Eugenius

1. A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek].
   • 1982 February 4, Fred Pearce, “The end of the pier show”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1291, pages 298–299:

     Most were built using screw-piles and 10 of them were designed by the great leader of his craft Eugenius Birch.

Translations

given name — see also Eugene

• Armenian: Եվգենիոս (Evgenios)
• French: Eugène (fr)
• German: Eugenius
• Greek: Ευγένιος (el) m (Evgénios)

  Ancient: Εὐγένιος (Eugénios)

• Italian: Eugenio (it)

  Sicilian: Euggeniu

• Latin: Eugenius
• Romanian: Eugen
• Russian: Евге́ний (ru) (Jevgénij)
• Sicilian: Auggeniu
• Spanish: Eugenio (es)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈɡe.ni.us/, [ɛu̯ˈɡɛniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈd͡ʒe.ni.us/, [eu̯ˈd͡ʒɛːnius]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, from εὐγενής (eugenḗs, “well-born”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix)).

Proper noun

Eugenius m (genitive Eugeniī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen and later a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Eugene

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Eugenius	Eugeniī
genitive	Eugeniī	Eugeniōrum
dative	Eugeniō	Eugeniīs
accusative	Eugenium	Eugeniōs
ablative	Eugeniō	Eugeniīs
vocative	Eugenī	Eugeniī

Related terms

• eugenēus

Descendants

• Catalan: Eugeni
• French: Eugène
• Italian: Eugenio
• Occitan: Eugèni
• Portuguese: Eugênio, Eugénio
• Romanian: Eugen
• Spanish: Eugenio

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Welsh Eugein, from Proto-Brythonic *Awɨɣėn.

Proper noun

Eugenius m (genitive Eugeniī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) A male given name from Old Welsh, equivalent to English Owen or Welsh Owain
   • c. 1125, William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; republished as William Stubbs, editor, Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi De Gestis Regum Anglorum Libri Quinque […], volume 1, 1887, page 147:

     Fugit tunc Analafus filius Sihctrici Hiberniam, et Godefridus frater ejus Scotiam; subsecuti sunt e vestigio regales, missi ad Constantinum regem Scottorum et Eugenium regem Cumbrorum, transfugam eum denuntiatione belli repetentes.

     Anlaf son of Sitric thereupon fled to Ireland, and his brother Gofraid to Scotland; royal messengers sent to Constantine the king of the Scots and Owain king of the Cumbrians followed in his footsteps, demanding the return of the fugitive under threat of war.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Eugenius	Eugeniī
genitive	Eugeniī	Eugeniōrum
dative	Eugeniō	Eugeniīs
accusative	Eugenium	Eugeniōs
ablative	Eugeniō	Eugeniīs
vocative	Eugenī	Eugeniī

References

• Eugenius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.