Bantius

== Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈban.ti.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈban.t͡si.us] === Proper noun === Bantius m sg (genitive Bantiī or Bantī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Lucius Bantius, a Roman soldier captured by Hannibal ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “L. Ba'ntius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray