Paetus

== Latin == === Etymology === From paetus (“blinking, squinting”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpae̯.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɛː.tus] === Proper noun === Paetus m sg (genitive Paetī); second declension a cognomen of the gentes Aelia, Autronia, Castrinia, and others ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “Paetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Paetus”, 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.