Livius

== Latin == === Etymology === The obvious Latin connection would be with līveō (“to be livid”), but some Etruscan origin is not dismissed. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.wi.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.vi.us] === Proper noun === Līvius m sg (genitive Līviī or Līvī, feminine Līvia); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Livius Salinator, a Roman consul Livius Andronicus a Roman dramatist and poet ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Līvia Līviānus ==== Descendants ==== Italian: Livio Romanian: Liviu === References === “Livius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Livius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 965