Prudentius
See also: prudentius
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]prūdēns (“wise”, “prudent”, oblique stem: prūdent-) + -ius
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pruːˈden.ti.us/, [pruːˈd̪ɛn̪t̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pruˈden.t͡si.us/, [pruˈd̪ɛnt̪͡s̪ius]
Proper noun
[edit]Prūdentius m sg (genitive Prūdentiī or Prūdentī); second declension
- A masculine nomen — famously held by:
- Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (AD 348–413), a Roman Christian poet of Calagurris, in Spain
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Prūdentius |
| genitive | Prūdentiī Prūdentī1 |
| dative | Prūdentiō |
| accusative | Prūdentium |
| ablative | Prūdentiō |
| vocative | Prūdentī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- French: Prudence
References
[edit]- “Prūdentĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Prūdentĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,269/2.
Further reading
[edit]
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
