Plautus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (“flat-footed, flap-eared”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Plautus
- A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
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Translations edit
Roman comic playwright
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From plautus (“flat-footed; flap-eared”). In the case of the comic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, sometimes said to be a personal agnomen from Umbrian dialect plōtus and sometimes self-styled as a stage name.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äu̯t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpläːu̯t̪us]
Proper noun edit
Plautus m sg (genitive Plautī); second declension
- Plautus, a famous Roman comic playwright
- Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget...
- Since deft Plautus is dead, Comedy grieves...
- a cognomen used by the gentes Bellia, Rubellia, Sergia, and others
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Plautus |
Genitive | Plautī |
Dative | Plautō |
Accusative | Plautum |
Ablative | Plautō |
Vocative | Plaute |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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.
- George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 110.