Horatius

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly a Latinized Etruscan name. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔˈraː.ti.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈrat.t͡si.us] === Proper noun === Horātius m (genitive Horātiī or Horātī); second declension The name of a Roman gēns. The Roman poet Horace. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “Horatius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Horatius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.