Umbonius

== Latin == === Etymology === From umbō (“boss of a shield”) +‎ -ius. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊmˈboː.ni.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [umˈbɔː.ni.us] === Proper noun === Umbōnius m sg (genitive Umbōniī or Umbōnī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by: Umbonius Silio, a Roman governor of Hispania Baetica ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “Silio, Umbonius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray