Stadius

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsta.di.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪aː.d̪i.us]

Stadius m sg (genitive Stadiī or Stadī); second declension

1. a male given name
   • ante AD 62, Aulus Persius Flaccus (author), Charles William Stocker (editor), Satire VI in The Satires of Juvenal and Persius, from the texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English notes, partly compiled, and partly original (second edition, 1839), page 454, lines 65–69:

     Ubi sit, fuge quærere, quod mihi quondam // Legârat Stadius; neu dicta repone paterna,— // ‘Feneris accedat merces; hinc exime sumtus!’ // “Quid reliquum est?” Reliquum? nunc, nunc impensius unge, // Unge, puer, caules.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “Stadius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Stădĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,473/2.