Virgilius

== Latin == === Etymology === From Vergilius; altered in spelling possibly by folk-etymological association with virga (“rod, wand”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɪrˈɡɪ.li.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [virˈd͡ʒiː.li.us] === Proper noun === Virgilius m sg (genitive Virgiliī or Virgilī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, proscribed) Later spelling of Vergilius ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “Virgilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Virgilius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers