Atticus
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós). Doublet of Attic.
Proper noun
editAtticus
- 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
editAnagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom 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 Latin) IPA(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːikus]
Adjective
editAtticus (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
editFirst/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
editAtticus 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
editSecond-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.
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