Tarquinius

== Latin == === Etymology === From Etruscan Tarchuna, Tarchna (“Tarquinii”). Further etymology is unknown. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tarˈkʷɪ.ni.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tarˈkʷiː.ni.us] === Proper noun === Tarquinius m sg (genitive Tarquiniī or Tarquinī); second declension Tarquin; a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and final king of Rome ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Tarquiniēnsēs Tarquiniēnsis Tarquiniī === Adjective === Tarquinius (feminine Tarquinia, neuter Tarquinium); first/second-declension adjective of or belonging to Tarquinii, Tarquinian of or belonging to the family of the Tarquins, Tarquinian ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “Tarquinius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Tarquinius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.