Ventidius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯enˈti.di.us/, [u̯ɛn̪ˈt̪ɪd̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /venˈti.di.us/, [ven̪ˈt̪iːd̪ius]

Proper noun

Ventidius m sg (genitive Ventidiī or Ventidī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Ventidius Cumanus, a Roman procurator

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ventidius
genitive	Ventidiī Ventidī1
dative	Ventidiō
accusative	Ventidium
ablative	Ventidiō
vocative	Ventidī

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

Derived terms

• Ventidiānus

References

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