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Nonius

Nonius

the name of a Roman

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Where it lives

What it meant

Nōnĭus — Lewis & Short

Nōnĭus, a,

I the name of a Roman gens. So M. Nonius Suffenas, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 13.— Nonius Marcellus, a Roman grammarian, whose treatise De Proprietate Sermonis is extant in a very mutilated form.

In the wild

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Nonius (scan p. 752; entry #12558). Root candidates: *wée-.

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