Tiberius

From Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈbɪəɹ.i.əs/, /tɪˈbɛɹiʊs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs

Tiberius (plural Tiberiuses)

1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 C.E..
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 3:1:

     Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,

• Tiberian, Tiberias

• Beirutis

• Ti. (praenominal abbreviation)

From Tiberis (“Tiber river”) +‎ -ius (“relative adjective marker”). C.f. Etruscan 𐌈𐌄𐌚𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌄 (θefarie), presumably borrowed from Faliscan *Tiferio(s).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪ɪˈbɛriʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪iˈbɛːrius]

Tiberius m (genitive Tiberiī or Tiberī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, famously held by:

   Emperor Tiberius Claudius

Second-declension noun.

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

• Tiberiānus
• Tiberēius
• Tibereus

• → English: Tiberius
• → Italian: Tiberio
• → Polish: Tyberiusz
• → Romanian: Tiberiu
• → Russian: Тибе́рий (Tibérij)

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