Fromlactāns(“suckling”) +-ius.[1]
Lactantius m sg (genitiveLactantiīorLactantī);second declension
- A masculinecognomen — famously held by:
- Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (circa AD 250–325), a celebratedfather of the Church, famous for the purity of his Latin style, and sometimes called the ChristianCicero
Second-declension noun, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- “Lactantĭus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lactantĭus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page881/1.
- ^Kajanto, Iiro (1966)Supernomina: A Study in Latin Epigraphy, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, pages56–57