Gargonius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡarˈɡoː.ni.us/, [ɡärˈɡoːniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡarˈɡo.ni.us/, [ɡärˈɡɔːnius]

Proper noun

Gargōnius m sg (genitive Gargōniī or Gargōnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
   1. Gaius Gargonius, a Roman eques

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gargōnius
genitive	Gargōniī Gargōnī1
dative	Gargōniō
accusative	Gargōnium
ablative	Gargōniō
vocative	Gargōnī

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

References

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