Pontidius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ponˈti.di.us/, [pɔn̪ˈt̪ɪd̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ponˈti.di.us/, [pon̪ˈt̪iːd̪ius]

Proper noun

Pontidius m sg (genitive Pontidiī or Pontidī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
   1. Marcus Pontidius, a Roman orator

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Pontidius
genitive	Pontidiī Pontidī1
dative	Pontidiō
accusative	Pontidium
ablative	Pontidiō
vocative	Pontidī

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

References

• “Pontidius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray