Virgilius

Latin

Etymology

From Vergilius; altered in spelling possibly by folk-etymological association with virga (“rod, wand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡi.li.us/, [u̯ɪrˈɡɪlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈd͡ʒi.li.us/, [virˈd͡ʒiːlius]

Proper noun

Virgilius m sg (genitive Virgiliī or Virgilī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, proscribed) Later spelling of Vergilius

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Virgilius
Genitive	Virgiliī Virgilī1
Dative	Virgiliō
Accusative	Virgilium
Ablative	Virgiliō
Vocative	Virgilī

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

References

• “Virgilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Virgilius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers