Apuleius

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Apuleius. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌæpjuˈli.əs/ === Proper noun === Apuleius An author in the Roman Empire, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Apuleius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Apuleius on Wikiquote.Wikiquote == Latin == === Alternative forms === Appuleius Apul. (abbreviation) === Etymology === Possibly from the praenomen Appius + -uleius. The form Appuleius features in older inscriptions. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.pʊˈɫɛj.jʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.puˈlɛj.jus] If the name is simplified from Appuleius and is related to Appius, the first A is short. === Proper noun === Apuleius m sg (genitive Apuleiī or Apuleī); second declension A masculine nomen — famously held by: Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (138–100 BC), tribunus plebis in 103 and 100 BC Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (circa AD 124–170), a spirited and flowery – but sometimes bombastic – writer, whose principal work yet extant is called Metamorphoseon sive de Asino Aureo libri XI. (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus (fl. AD 4th C.), pseudonymous author of a Herbarium popular throughout the Early and High Middle Ages ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== English: Apuleius French: Apulée Greek: Απουλήιος (Apoulíios) Portuguese: Apuleio Spanish: Apuleyo ==== Further reading ==== Apuleius (disambiguation) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Lucius Apuleius Saturninus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Apuleius Madaurensis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la === Adjective === Apuleius (feminine Apuleia, neuter Apuleium); first/second-declension adjective of Apuleius (of a law or laws) proposed by the tribunus plebis L. Apuleius Saturninus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “Apuleius” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present “Appŭlēius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Apŭlēĭus (App-)”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 149/3. “Āpulēius” on page 156 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)