Vitruvius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪˈtruː.wi.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt̪ruː.vi.us]

Proper noun

Vitrūvius m sg (genitive Vitrūviī or Vitrūvī); second declension

a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
1. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vitrūvius
genitive	Vitrūviī Vitrūvī¹
dative	Vitrūviō
accusative	Vitrūvium
ablative	Vitrūviō
vocative	Vitrūvī

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

Derived terms

Vitrūvia

Descendants

Armenian: Վիտրուվիոս (Vitruvios)
Catalan: Vitruvi
French: Vitruve
German: Vitruv
Italian: Vitruvio
Latvian: Vitrūvijs
Lithuanian: Vitruvijus
Polish: Witruwiusz
Portuguese: Vitrúvio
Romanian: Vitruviu
Russian: Витру́вий (Vitrúvij)
Spanish: Vitruvio

References

“Vitruvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Vitruvius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.