Atticus
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós). Doublet of Attic.
Proper noun edit
Atticus
- A male given name from Latin.
- 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, Random House, published 2014, →ISBN:
- ... yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.
Translations edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a clipped Attica + -icus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːikus]
Adjective edit
Atticus (feminine Attica, neuter Atticum, adverb Atticē); first/second-declension adjective
- (in general) of or pertaining to Attica or Athens, Attic, Athenian
- (appellative) designating the highest grade of style, philosophy, eloquence, etc.
- (transferred sense) excellent, preeminent, preferable
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | Atticus | Attica | Atticum | Atticī | Atticae | Attica | |
Genitive | Atticī | Atticae | Atticī | Atticōrum | Atticārum | Atticōrum | |
Dative | Atticō | Atticō | Atticīs | ||||
Accusative | Atticum | Atticam | Atticum | Atticōs | Atticās | Attica | |
Ablative | Atticō | Atticā | Atticō | Atticīs | |||
Vocative | Attice | Attica | Atticum | Atticī | Atticae | Attica |
Derived terms edit
- Atticī m pl
Descendants edit
- English: Attic
Proper noun edit
Atticus m sg (genitive Atticī, feminine Attica); second declension
- a male cognomen
- T. Pomponius Atticus (110–32 B.C.E.), close friend of and famed correspondent with M. Tullius Cicero
- a friend of P. Ovidius Naso
- Antonius Atticus (C.E. 1st century), Latin rhetorician
- Vipsanius Atticus (C.E. 1st or 2nd century), buried at Catina in Sicilia
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Atticus |
Genitive | Atticī |
Dative | Atticō |
Accusative | Atticum |
Ablative | Atticō |
Vocative | Attice |
Descendants edit
- → English: Atticus
Further reading edit
- “Attĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Attĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3.