spurius

== Latin == === Etymology === Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to scatter”) or from *sperH- (whence spernō). Others refer it to Etruscan 𐌔𐤂𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌋 (spural, “public”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspʊ.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspuː.ri.us] === Adjective === spurius (feminine spuria, neuter spurium); first/second-declension adjective of illegitimate birth but unknown father false, spurious ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== nothus (illegitimate, but known father) === References === “spurius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "spurius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “spurius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “spurius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray