Apicius

Unknown. Suggested sources include *apicus from Ancient Greek ἄποκος (ápokos, “hairless”) or ἄποικος (ápoikos, “colonist”), or apex via *apicō, thus meaning “priest, one who wears a conical hat”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈpiː.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈpiː.t͡ʃi.us]

Apīcius m sg (genitive Apīciī or Apīcī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Apīciānus

• “Apicius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Apicius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.