Tiberius

Latin Tiberius, literally 'Of the Tiber', from Tiberis, the river Tiber. Also note Faliscan equivalent *Tiferios. The name is mistaken by some to be of Etruscan origin but note the borrowed variants, Thefarie (from Faliscan) and Teperi (from Latin).

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈbɛɹiʊs/, /taɪˈbɪəɹi.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪəriəs

Tiberius

1. A male given name of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 CE.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 3:1:

     Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,

• Tiberian

• Ti. (praenominal abbreviation)

From Tiberis (“Tiber river”), as the adjective tiberius

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tiˈbe.ri.us/, [tɪˈbɛ.ri.ʊs]

Tiberius m (genitive Tiberiī or Tiberī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.
2. Emperor Tiberius Claudius

Second declension.

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

• Tiberiānus
• Tiberēius
• Tibereus

• English: Tiberius
• Italian: Tiberio

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