Tiberius

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈbɛɹiʊs/, /taɪˈbɪəɹi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəriəs

Proper noun

Tiberius

1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 C.E..
   • Template:RQ:Authorized Version

     Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,

Related terms

• Tiberian

Translations

given name

• Armenian: Տիբերիոս (Tiberios)
• French: Tibère (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Τιβέριος (Tibérios)

• Hungarian: Tibor (hu)
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• Italian: Tiberio (it) m
• Korean: 티베리우스 (Tiberiuseu)
• Latin: Tiberius m
• Russian: Тибе́рий (ru) m (Tibérij)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Ti. (praenominal abbreviation)

Etymology

From Tiberis (“Tiber river”), as the adjective tiberius

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪ɪˈbɛriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [t̪iˈbɛːrius]

Proper noun

Tiberius m (genitive Tiberiī or Tiberī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, famously held by:

   Emperor Tiberius Claudius

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Tiberius	Tiberiī
Genitive	Tiberiī Tiberī1	Tiberiōrum
Dative	Tiberiō	Tiberiīs
Accusative	Tiberium	Tiberiōs
Ablative	Tiberiō	Tiberiīs
Vocative	Tiberī	Tiberiī

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

Derived terms

• Tiberiānus
• Tiberēius
• Tibereus

Descendants

• English: Tiberius
• Italian: Tiberio

References

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