Ovidius

Latin

Etymology

From ovis (“sheep”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈu̯i.di.us/, [oˈu̯ɪd̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈvi.di.us/, [oˈviːd̪ius]

Proper noun

Ovidius m (genitive Ovidiī or Ovidī); second declension

1. The name of a Roman gēns.
2. The Roman poet Ovid.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Ovidius	Ovidiī
genitive	Ovidiī Ovidī1	Ovidiōrum
dative	Ovidiō	Ovidiīs
accusative	Ovidium	Ovidiōs
ablative	Ovidiō	Ovidiīs
vocative	Ovidī	Ovidiī

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

Descendants

• → Armenian: Օվիդիուս (Ōvidius)
• → Catalan: Ovidi
• → English: Ovid
• → French: Ovide
• → Irish: Óivid
• → Italian: Ovidio
• → Portuguese: Ovídio
• → Romanian: Ovidiu
• → Russian: Овидий (Ovidij)
• → Spanish: Ovidio
• → Ukrainian: Овідій (Ovidij)
• → Welsh: Ofydd

References

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