Falanius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faˈla.ni.us/, [fäˈɫ̪äniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈla.ni.us/, [fäˈläːnius]

Proper noun

Falanius m sg (genitive Falaniī or Falanī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name", famously held by:
   1. Falanius, a Roman knight

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Falanius
Genitive	Falaniī Falanī1
Dative	Falaniō
Accusative	Falanium
Ablative	Falaniō
Vocative	Falanī

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

References

• “Falanius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Falanius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray