Scaevius

From Scaeva (“agnomen & cognomen”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”), from scaevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; very lucky or unlucky”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskae̯.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛː.vi.us]

Scaevius m sg (genitive Scaeviī or Scaevī); second declension

1. a nomen (nomen gentile), a plebeian Roman family name

   Publius Scaevius

    

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• gens Scaevia on English Wikipedia

• “P. Scaevius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray