Ovidius

== Latin == === Etymology === From ovis (“sheep”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈwɪ.di.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈviː.di.us] === Proper noun === Ovidius m (genitive Ovidiī or Ovidī); second declension The name of a Roman gēns. The Roman poet Ovid. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “Ovidius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Ovidius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.