Vergilius

Latin

Alternative forms

• Virgilius (late and mediaeval Latin)

Etymology

From Vergilus +‎ -ius, from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈɡi.li.us/, [u̯ɛrˈɡɪlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈd͡ʒi.li.us/, [verˈd͡ʒiːlius]

Proper noun

Vergilius m sg (genitive Vergiliī or Vergilī); second declension

1. The poet Publius Vergilius Maro, known in English as Virgil.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vergilius
Genitive	Vergiliī Vergilī1
Dative	Vergiliō
Accusative	Vergilium
Ablative	Vergiliō
Vocative	Vergilī

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

Derived terms

• Vergiliānus

Descendants

• → Middle English: Vyrgyle
  • English: Virgil
• → Italian: Virgilio

References

• “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Vergilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers