Sextus

See also: sextus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sextus, probably originally referring to the month of birth, sextīlis (“August”), rather than to birth order.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sextus m (genitive Sextī); second declension

  1. A masculine praenomen, particularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular:
    1. Sextus Pompeius (a Roman general from the late Republic)
      • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistuale ad Atticum 16.4.2.1:
        Sextum autem nūntiant cum ūnā sōlum legiōne fuisse ad Carthāginem
        The messengers further report that Sextus had been at Carthage with only one legion

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Sextus Sextī
genitive Sextī Sextōrum
dative Sextō Sextīs
accusative Sextum Sextōs
ablative Sextō Sextīs
vocative Sexte Sextī

References

  1. ^ Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, editor (1 January 2005), The Oxford Classical Dictionary‎[1], 3 edition, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1024

Further reading

  • “Sextus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Sextus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • 1916, Lindley Richard Dean, A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions, page 72,79:
    The use of Primus, Secundus, Tertius, Quintus, Sextus, and Decimus as praenomina is noted in a later section. Quintus and Sextus, the latter particularly, seem to have been used longer as praenomina and for that reason their employment as cognomina falls later than the first century. […] The numeral adjectives Primus, Secundus, Tertius, and Sextus were employed as praenomina at one time. The use of Sextus as a praenomen is probably more common than as a cognomen.
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