Livius

Latin

Etymology

The obvious Latin connection would be with līveō (“to be livid”), but some Etruscan origin is not dismissed.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.u̯i.us/, [ˈlʲiːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vi.us/, [ˈliːvius]

Proper noun

Līvius m sg (genitive Līviī or Līvī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Livius Salinator, a Roman consul
   2. Livius Andronicus a Roman dramatist and poet

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Līvius
genitive	Līviī Līvī1
dative	Līviō
accusative	Līvium
ablative	Līviō
vocative	Līvī

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

Derived terms

• Līvia
• Līviānus

Descendants

• Italian: Livio
• Romanian: Liviu

References

• “Livius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Livius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 965