Lactantius

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lactāns (“suckling”) +‎ -ius.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /lakˈtan.ti.us/, [ɫ̪äkˈt̪än̪t̪iʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lakˈtan.t͡si.us/, [läkˈt̪änt̪͡s̪ius]

Proper noun

Lactantius m sg (genitive Lactantiī or Lactantī); second declension

  1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (circa AD 250–325), a celebrated father of the Church, famous for the purity of his Latin style, and sometimes called the Christian Cicero

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Lactantius
Genitive Lactantiī
Lactantī1
Dative Lactantiō
Accusative Lactantium
Ablative Lactantiō
Vocative Lactantī

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

Descendants
  • French: Lactance

References
  • “Lactantĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lactantĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 881/1
  1. Kajanto, Iiro (1966) Supernomina: A Study in Latin Epigraphy, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, pages 56–57

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