Suetonius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /su̯eːˈtoː.ni.us/, [s̠u̯eːˈt̪oːniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sweˈto.ni.us/, [sweˈt̪ɔːnius]

Proper noun

Suētōnius m sg (genitive Suētōniī or Suētōnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman historian

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Suētōnius
genitive	Suētōniī Suētōnī1
dative	Suētōniō
accusative	Suētōnium
ablative	Suētōniō
vocative	Suētōnī

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

Derived terms

• Suētōnia

References

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