Silicius

Possibly from silex (“flint”) +‎ -ius.

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

Silicius m sg (genitive Siliciī or Silicī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Publius Silicius Coronas, a Roman senator

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

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