Vespasius

== Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛsˈpa.si.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vesˈpaː.s̬i.us] === Proper noun === Vespasius m sg (genitive Vespasiī or Vespasī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Vespasius Pollio, the grandfather of Vespasianus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Vespasia Vespasiānus === References === “Vespasius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Vespasius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.