Plautus

See also: plautus and pļautus

English

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Etymology

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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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From plautus (“flatfooted”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äu̯t̪ʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpläːu̯t̪us]

Proper noun

Plautus m sg (genitive Plautī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

Descendants
  • → Italian: Plauto

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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