Claudius
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Claudius. Doublet of Claude.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Claudius
- A male given name from Latin.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:25-26:
- And he wrote a letter after this manner: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
- The Roman emperor "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus"
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Translations[edit]
Roman Emperor
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Traditionally said to be from claudus (“lame, limping, crippled”), however, family history relates that the name was adopted as the Romanized form of an earlier Clausus, the Latin spelling of an original Sabine name. A Sabine word cognate with clausus (“shut, closed”), perfect passive participle of claudō (“I shut, close”) seems a more probable origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklau̯.di.us/, [ˈkɫ̪äu̯d̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈklau̯.di.us/, [ˈkläːu̯d̪ius]
Proper noun[edit]
Claudius m (genitive Claudiī or Claudī, feminine Claudia); second declension
- A Roman gens name.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Claudius | Claudiī |
Genitive | Claudiī Claudī1 |
Claudiōrum |
Dative | Claudiō | Claudiīs |
Accusative | Claudium | Claudiōs |
Ablative | Claudiō | Claudiīs |
Vocative | Claudī | Claudiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Descendants[edit]
- English: Claude
- French: Claude
- Galician: Clodio
- Italian: Claudio
- Portuguese: Cláudio
- Romanian: Claudiu
- Spanish: Claudio
References[edit]
- “Claudius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Claudius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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