Plautus

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See also: plautus and pļautus

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Etymology

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From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (flat-footed, flap-eared).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplɔːtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈplɔtəs/, /ˈplɑtəs/, /ˈplaʊtəs/

Proper noun

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Plautus

  1. A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
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Translations

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From plautus (flat-footed; flap-eared). In the case of the comic playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, sometimes said to be a personal agnomen from Umbrian dialect plōtus and sometimes self-styled as a stage name.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Plautus m sg (genitive Plautī); second declension

  1. Plautus, a famous Roman comic playwright
    Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget...
    Since deft Plautus is dead, Comedy grieves...
  2. a cognomen used by the gentes Bellia, Rubellia, Sergia, and others

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

Descendants

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  • English: Plautus
  • Italian: Plauto

References

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  • 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.
  • George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 110.