Atrius

Atrius

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.

• Ristau, Surita, Tauris, aurist

Maybe from āter (“black”) +‎ -ius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.tri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.t̪ri.us]

Ātrius m sg (genitive Ātriī or Ātrī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name"

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Ātria

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