Glabrio

Latin

Etymology

From glaber (“smooth, hairless”) + -iō (suffix forming related nouns and adjectives). First attested as a cognomen for the new man M'. Acilius Glabrio, consul in 191 BC and victor over Antiochus III at Thermopylae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.bri.oː/, [ˈɡɫ̪äbrioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡla.bri.o/, [ˈɡläːbrio]

Proper noun

Glabriō m sg (genitive Glabriōnis); third declension

1. A Roman cognomen of the gens Acilia.

   Manius Acilius Glabrio

    

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Glabriō
genitive	Glabriōnis
dative	Glabriōnī
accusative	Glabriōnem
ablative	Glabriōne
vocative	Glabriō

See also

• Acilii Glabriones on the English Wikipedia

References

• “Glabrio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Glabrio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.