Horatius

Latin

Etymology

Possibly a Latinized Etruscan name.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔˈraː.ti.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈrat.t͡si.us]

Proper noun

Horātius m (genitive Horātiī or Horātī); second declension

1. The name of a Roman gēns.
2. The Roman poet Horace.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Horātius	Horātiī
genitive	Horātiī Horātī1	Horātiōrum
dative	Horātiō	Horātiīs
accusative	Horātium	Horātiōs
ablative	Horātiō	Horātiīs
vocative	Horātī	Horātiī

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

Descendants

• Catalan: Horaci
• → English: Horace, Horatio
• Esperanto: Horacio
• French: Horace
• Italian: Orazio
• Portuguese: Horácio
• Romanian: Horațiu
• Sicilian: Arazziu
• Spanish: Horacio

References

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