Plautus

See also: plautus and pļautus

English

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Etymology

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplɔːtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈplɔtəs/, /ˈplɑtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/

Proper noun

Plautus

  1. A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From plautus (“broad-shouldered”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpɫau̯.tʊs]

Proper noun

Plautus m (genitive Plautī); second declension

  1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Titus Maccius Plautus, a Roman playwright

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular
Nominative Plautus
Genitive Plautī
Dative Plautō
Accusative Plautum
Ablative Plautō
Vocative Plaute

Descendants

References
  • Plautus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Plautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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