Laevinus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Laevus (cognomen) +‎ -īnus (“-ine”, diminutive suffix) or directly from laevus (“left; clumsy; foolish; unlucky”) +‎ -īnus. Compare the similar cognomen pairs Paetus and Paetinus and Luscus and Luscinus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫae̯ˈwiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈviː.nus] === Proper noun === Laevīnus m sg (genitive Laevīnī); second declension a cognomen used by the gens Valeria ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Laevinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Laevinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.