Latin edit

Etymology edit

From German Hevel +‎ -ius.

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Hevelius m sg (genitive Heveliī or Hevelī); second declension

  1. a male surname from German — famously held by:
    1. Johannes Hevelius, a Polish astronomer of German ancestry.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Hevelius
Genitive Heveliī
Hevelī1
Dative Heveliō
Accusative Hevelium
Ablative Heveliō
Vocative Hevelī

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

Further reading edit