Apicius

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. Suggested sources include *apicus from Ancient Greek ἄποκος (ápokos, “hairless”) or ἄποικος (ápoikos, “colonist”), or apex via *apicō, thus meaning “priest, one who wears a conical hat”. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈpiː.ki.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈpiː.t͡ʃi.us] === Proper noun === Apīcius m sg (genitive Apīciī or Apīcī); second declension A Roman cognomen — famously held by: Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Apīciānus === References === “Apicius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Apicius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.