Eutropius

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὔτροπος (eútropos, “morally good”) +‎ -ius (masculine name suffix), the former from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) +‎ τρόπος (trópos, “way, manner”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈtro.pi.us/, [ɛu̯ˈt̪rɔpiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈtro.pi.us/, [eu̯ˈt̪rɔːpius]

Proper noun

Eutropius m sg (genitive Eutropiī or Eutropī); second declension

1. Flavius Eutropius (Roman historian)
   • c. 390 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.36:

      […], Eutropius Asiam proconsulari tunc obtinens potestate, ut factionis conscius arcessitus in crimen, […]

Inflection

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Eutropius
genitive	Eutropiī Eutropī1
dative	Eutropiō
accusative	Eutropium
ablative	Eutropiō
vocative	Eutropī

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

References

• “Eutropius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press