Maevius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmae̯.u̯i.us/, [ˈmäe̯u̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.vi.us/, [ˈmɛːvius]

Proper noun

Maevius m sg (genitive Maeviī or Maevī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Maevius, a Roman poet, despised by Vergil and Horace

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Maevius
genitive	Maeviī Maevī1
dative	Maeviō
accusative	Maevium
ablative	Maeviō
vocative	Maevī

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

Derived terms

• Maevia
• Maeviānus

References

• “Maevius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Maevius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Maevius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray