Scaevius

From scaevus (“left-handed”) +‎ -ius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskae̯.u̯i.us/, [ˈs̠käe̯u̯iʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.vi.us/, [ˈʃɛːvius]

Scaevius m sg (genitive Scaeviī or Scaevī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Publius Scaevius, a Roman soldier

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “P. Scaevius”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray