Scaevius

== Latin == === Etymology === From Scaeva (“agnomen & cognomen”) +‎ -ius (“-y: forming adjectives”), from scaevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; very lucky or unlucky”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskae̯.wi.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈʃɛː.vi.us] === Proper noun === Scaevius m sg (genitive Scaeviī or Scaevī); second declension a nomen (nomen gentile), a plebeian Roman family name ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === See also === gens Scaevia on English Wikipedia === References === “P. Scaevius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray