Vitruvius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈtruː.u̯i.us/, [u̯ɪˈt̪ruːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈtru.vi.us/, [viˈt̪ruːvius]

Proper noun

Vitrūvius m sg (genitive Vitrūviī or Vitrūvī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vitrūvius
genitive	Vitrūviī Vitrūvī1
dative	Vitrūviō
accusative	Vitrūvium
ablative	Vitrūviō
vocative	Vitrūvī

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

Derived terms

• Vitrūvia

Descendants

• Armenian: Վիտրուվիոս (Vitruvios)
• Catalan: Vitruvi
• French: Vitruve
• German: Vitruv
• Italian: Vitruvio
• Latvian: Vitrūvijs
• Lithuanian: Vitruvijus
• Polish: Witruwiusz
• Portuguese: Vitrúvio
• Romanian: Vitruviu
• Russian: Витру́вий (Vitrúvij)
• Spanish: Vitruvio

References

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