Plautus

See also: plautus and pļautus

English

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔːtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔtəs/, /ˈplɑtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/

Proper noun

Plautus

1. A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.

Related terms

• Plautine

Translations

Roman comic playwright

• Hungarian: Plautus
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Latin

Etymology

From plautus (“broad-shouldered”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äu̯t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpläːu̯t̪us]

Proper noun

Plautus m sg (genitive Plautī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Plautus
Genitive	Plautī
Dative	Plautō
Accusative	Plautum
Ablative	Plautō
Vocative	Plaute

Descendants

• Italian: Plauto

References

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