Lactantius
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lactāns (“suckling”) + -ius.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lakˈtan.ti.us/, [ɫ̪äkˈt̪än̪t̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lakˈtan.t͡si.us/, [läkˈt̪änt̪͡s̪ius]
Proper noun
[edit]Lactantius m sg (genitive Lactantiī or Lactantī); second declension
- A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
- Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (circa AD 250–325), a celebrated father of the Church, famous for the purity of his Latin style, and sometimes called the Christian Cicero
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Lactantius |
| genitive | Lactantiī Lactantī1 |
| dative | Lactantiō |
| accusative | Lactantium |
| ablative | Lactantiō |
| vocative | Lactantī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- French: Lactance
References
[edit]- “Lactantĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lactantĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 881/1.
- ^ Kajanto, Iiro (1966) Supernomina: A Study in Latin Epigraphy, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, pages 56–57
Further reading
[edit]
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
