Axius

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Latin[edit]

View of the river

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀξιός (Axiós).

Proper noun[edit]

Axius m sg (genitive Axiī or Axī); second declension

  1. A river of Macedonia, now the Vardar
Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Axius
Genitive Axiī
Axī1
Dative Axiō
Accusative Axium
Ablative Axiō
Vocative Axī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Etymology 2[edit]

Related to Etruscan 𐌀𐌂𐌔𐌉 (Acsi, “the Axia gens”).

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Proper noun[edit]

Axius m sg (genitive Axiī or Axī); second declension

  1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
    1. Quintus Axius, a Roman senator
Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Axius
Genitive Axiī
Axī1
Dative Axiō
Accusative Axium
Ablative Axiō
Vocative Axī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “Axius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Axius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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