Calventius

Probably from calvēns (“deceiving”) +‎ -ius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaɫˈwɛn.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kalˈvɛn.t̪͡s̪i.us]

Calventius m sg (genitive Calventiī or Calventī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Calventius Viator, a Roman commander

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Calventius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Calventius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray