Prudentius

See also: prudentius

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

prūdēns (“wise”, “prudent”, oblique stem: prūdent-) +‎ -ius

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /pruːˈden.ti.us/, [pruːˈd̪ɛn̪t̪iʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pruˈden.t͡si.us/, [pruˈd̪ɛnt̪͡s̪ius]

Proper noun

Prūdentius m sg (genitive Prūdentiī or Prūdentī); second declension

  1. A masculine nomen — famously held by:
    1. Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (AD 348–413), a Roman Christian poet of Calagurris, in Spain

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Prūdentius
Genitive Prūdentiī
Prūdentī1
Dative Prūdentiō
Accusative Prūdentium
Ablative Prūdentiō
Vocative Prūdentī

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

Descendants
  • French: Prudence

References
  • “Prūdentĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Prūdentĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,269/2

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