Erucius

== Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈrʊ.ki.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈruː.t͡ʃi.us] === Proper noun === Erucius m sg (genitive Eruciī or Erucī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Sextus Erucius Clarus, a Roman senator ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “Erucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Erucius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.