Vergilius

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Virgilius (late and mediaeval Latin) === Etymology === From Vergilus +‎ -ius, from Etruscan. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛrˈɡɪ.li.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [verˈd͡ʒiː.li.us] === Proper noun === Vergilius m sg (genitive Vergiliī or Vergilī); second declension The poet Publius Vergilius Maro, known in English as Virgil. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Vergiliānus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers