Tatius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ti.us/, [ˈt̪ät̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtat.t͡si.us/, [ˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪ius]

Proper noun

Tatius m sg (genitive Tatiī or Tatī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Titus Tatius, mythological king of the Sabini, later on the joint ruler with Romulus in young Rome
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.10.1:

     [...] nec domī tantum indignātiōnēs continēbant, sed congregābantur undique ad T(itum) Tatium, rēgem Sabīnōrum, et lēgātiōnēs eō, quod maximum Tatī nōmen in īs regiōnibus erat, conveniēbant.

   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales :

     ō Tite, tūte, Tatī, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulistī
     pectora [...]

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tatius
genitive	Tatiī Tatī1
dative	Tatiō
accusative	Tatium
ablative	Tatiō
vocative	Tatī

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

Descendants

• → Italian: Tazio

References

• Tatius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Tatius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Tatius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press