Scaevius

Latin

Etymology

From Scaeva (“agnomen & cognomen”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”), from scaevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; very lucky or unlucky”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskae̯.u̯i.us/, [ˈs̠käe̯u̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.vi.us/, [ˈʃɛːvius]

Proper noun

Scaevius m sg (genitive Scaeviī or Scaevī); second declension

1. a nomen (nomen gentile), a plebeian Roman family name

   Publius Scaevius

    

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Scaevius
genitive	Scaeviī Scaevī1
dative	Scaeviō
accusative	Scaevium
ablative	Scaeviō
vocative	Scaevī

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

See also

• gens Scaevia on English Wikipedia

References

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