Plinius

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Plinius

1. Pliny

• Plinius der Ältere - Pliny the Elder
• Plinius der Jüngere - Pliny the Younger

From the Roman gens Plinia, an Italic name of obscure origin; possibly from the Insubric (Gaulish) root Plina through rhotacism from prina, or from a north Italic word for “bald”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpliː.ni.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpliː.ni.us]

Plīnius m sg (genitive Plīniī or Plīnī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
   1. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Plīnia
• Plīniānus

• Italian: Plinio

• “Plinius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Plinius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius. "Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch" (in German). University of Leiden.

Borrowed from Latin Plīnius.

Plinius m

1. Pliny the Elder

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “Plinius”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000