Vespasianus

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English Vespasianus, from Latin Vespasiānus. === Proper noun === Vespasianus Alternative form of Vespasian (“a Roman cognomen”). == Latin == === Etymology === Apparently from Vespasiae, a town near Nursia in Samnium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛs.pa.siˈaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ves.pa.s̬iˈaː.nus] === Proper noun === Vespasiānus m (genitive Vespasiānī); second declension Vespasian (Roman cognomen) Titus Flavius Vespasianus — the Roman emperor from AD 69 to 79, succeeded by his son Titus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “Vespasianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Vespasianus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.