Barca

la-proper noun

Barca f sg (genitive Barcae); first declension

Barcae (genitive)
Barca (nominative singular)
Barcae (nominative plural)
Barcae (genitive singular)
Barcārum (genitive plural)
Barcae (dative singular)
Barcīs (dative plural)
Barcam (accusative singular)
Barcās (accusative plural)
Barcā (ablative singular)
Barcīs (ablative plural)
Barca (singular vocative)
Barcae (plural vocative)

From Punic 𐤁𐤓𐤒 (Baraq), from Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤒 (baraq, “lightning”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *baraḳ-.

a surname from Punic, particularly (historical) a dynasty of Carthaginian leaders.


Junta

Junta m (genitive Juntae); first declension

Juntae (genitive)
Junta (nominative singular)
Juntae (nominative plural)
Juntae (genitive singular)
Juntārum (genitive plural)
Juntae (dative singular)
Juntīs (dative plural)
Juntam (accusative singular)
Juntās (accusative plural)
Juntā (ablative singular)
Juntīs (ablative plural)
Junta (singular vocative)
Juntae (plural vocative)

1791, Angelo Maria Bandini, De Florentina Juntarum typographia ejusque censoribus, main title:

(New Latin) a surname, equivalent to English Giunta — famously held by:

Lucantonius Junta Florentinus (1457–1538), founder (with his brother, Philippus Junta) of the Giunti printing family business


Linnaeus

Linnaeus m (genitive Linnaeī); second declension

Linnaeī (genitive)
Linnaeus (nominative singular)
Linnaeī (genitive singular)
Linnaeō (dative singular)
Linnaeum (accusative singular)
Linnaeō (ablative singular)
Linnaee (singular vocative)

desc

→ English: Linnæus, Linnaeus, Linnæa, Linnaea

→ Swedish: Linnæus, Linnaeus, Linnæa, Linnaea

→ Translingual: Linnæa, Linnæa borealis, Linnaea, Linnaea borealis, Linnaeaceae

Borrowed from Swedish lind (“linden tree, lime tree”).

bor+

(New Latin) a male surname from Swedish — famously held by:

Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, taxonomist, and zoologist.


Stradivarius

English: Stradivarius


Copernicus

la-proper noun

Copernicus m sg (genitive Copernicī); second declension

Copernicī (genitive)
Copernicus (nominative singular)
Copernicī (genitive singular)
Copernicō (dative singular)
Copernicum (accusative singular)
Copernicō (ablative singular)
Copernice (singular vocative)

→ Catalan: Copèrnic (learned)

→ English: Copernicus

→ German: Copernicus, Kopernikus

Latinized from Old Polish Kopernik + -us.

(Renaissance Latin, New Latin) a male surname from Polish — famously held by:

Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer and mathematician


Ptolemaeus

Ptolemaeus m (genitive Ptolemaeī); second declension

Ptolemaeī (genitive)
Ptolemaeus (nominative singular)
Ptolemaeī (nominative plural)
Ptolemaeī (genitive singular)
Ptolemaeōrum (genitive plural)
Ptolemaeō (dative singular)
Ptolemaeīs (dative plural)
Ptolemaeum (accusative singular)
Ptolemaeōs (accusative plural)
Ptolemaeō (ablative singular)
Ptolemaeīs (ablative plural)
Ptolemaee (singular vocative)
Ptolemaeī (plural vocative)

Catalan: Ptolomeu, Ptolemeu

English: Ptolemy

French: Ptolémée

Italian: Tolomeo

Portuguese: Ptolomeu, Ptolemeu

Romanian: Ptolemeu

Spanish: Ptolomeo, Tolomeo

[pt̪ɔɫ̪ɛˈmäe̯ʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaîos).

Ptolemy (name of Greek origin)
a surname from Ancient Greek


Smalcius

Smalcius m sg (genitive Smalciī or Smalcī); second declension

Smalciī (genitive)
Smalcī (genitive)
Smalcius (nominative singular)
Smalciī (genitive singular)
Smalcī (genitive singular)
Smalciō (dative singular)
Smalcium (accusative singular)
Smalciō (ablative singular)
Smalcī (singular vocative)

[ˈs̠mäɫ̪kiʊs̠]

Neque enim leviter errant ex Photinianis Chriſtophorus Oſtorodus (e) ſtatuere non veritus, Chriſtum non ulterius carnem & ſangvinem habere, ſicut prius habuerit, qvàm ipſum Deus exaltarit, & ſociennus Valent. Smalcius (f) aſſerens, Chriſtum in cœlo eſſe maculatum, pollutum & imperfectum, quoad eſſentiam & naturam, ſi ſangvinem habeat: ne dicam nunc alios, quid Chriſtum, jam adſidentem Patris dextræ, tanquam unum ex Homericis (g) Diis, ἀναίμονα faciunt.

1598, Johann Friedrich Köber (author of the original), Friedrich August Ferber (expanding contributor), Diſſertatiunculæ de Sangvine Jeſu Chriſti, dissertatiuncula XXIV, pages 334–335

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Valentinus Smalcius (1572–1622), German Socinian theologian


Leibnitius

Leibnitius m sg (genitive Leibnitiī or Leibnitī); second declension

Leibnitiī (genitive)
Leibnitī (genitive)
Leibnitius (nominative singular)
Leibnitiī (genitive singular)
Leibnitī (genitive singular)
Leibnitiō (dative singular)
Leibnitium (accusative singular)
Leibnitiō (ablative singular)
Leibnitī (singular vocative)

→ Greek: Λεϊβνίτιος (Leïvnítios)

a surname from German — famously held by:

Godefridus Guilielmus Leibnitius (1646–1716), German mathematician, philosopher, and polymath


Osiander

Osiander m sg (genitive Osiandrī); second declension

Osiandrī (genitive)
Osiander (nominative singular)
Osiandrī (genitive singular)
Osiandrō (dative singular)
Osiandrum (accusative singular)
Osiandrō (ablative singular)
Osiander (singular vocative)

[ɔs̠iˈän̪d̪ɛr]

Andreas Osiander (1498–1552), German Lutheran theologian


Tzetzes

Tzetzēs m sg (genitive Tzetzae); first declension

Tzetzēs (canonical masculine singular)
Tzetzae (genitive)
Tzetzēs (nominative singular)
Tzetzae (genitive singular)
Tzetzae (dative singular)
Tzetzēn (accusative singular)
Tzetzē (ablative singular)
Tzetzē (singular vocative)

[ˈt̪s̠ɛt̪s̠eːs̠]

From the Byzantine Greek Τζέτζης (Tzétzēs).

(Medieval Latin) a surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by:

Joannes Tzetzes (circa 1110–1180), Byzantine poet and grammarian


Lockius

Lockius m sg (genitive Lockiī or Lockī); second declension

Lockiī (genitive)
Lockī (genitive)
Lockius (nominative singular)
Lockiī (genitive singular)
Lockī (genitive singular)
Lockiō (dative singular)
Lockium (accusative singular)
Lockiō (ablative singular)
Lockī (singular vocative)

[ˈɫ̪ɔkːiʊs̠]

a male surname from English, equivalent to English Locke — famously held by:

Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

Johannes Lockius, an English philosopher and physician who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.


Drusus

Drusus m sg (genitive Drusī); second declension

Drusī (genitive)
Drūsus (nominative singular)
Drūsī (genitive singular)
Drūsō (dative singular)
Drūsum (accusative singular)
Drūsō (ablative singular)
Drūse (singular vocative)

[ˈd̪rʊs̠ʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek δρόσος (drósos, “dew”), from a Proto-Indo-European root related to Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “dew”).


Achillinus

Achillīnus m sg (genitive Achillīnī); second declension

Achillīnus (canonical masculine singular)
Achillīnī (genitive)
Achillīnus (nominative singular)
Achillīnī (genitive singular)
Achillīnō (dative singular)
Achillīnum (accusative singular)
Achillīnō (ablative singular)
Achillīne (singular vocative)

[äkʰɪlˈlʲiːnʊs̠]

Alexander Achillinus (1463–1512), Italian philosopher and physician

Joannes Philotheus Achillinus (1466–1538), Italian philosopher

Claudius Achillinus (1574–1640), Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, and jurist


Zonaras

Zōnarās m sg (genitive Zōnarae); first declension

Zōnarās (canonical masculine singular)
Zōnarae (genitive)
Zōnarās (nominative singular)
Zōnarae (genitive singular)
Zōnarae (dative singular)
Zōnarān (accusative singular)
Zōnarā (ablative singular)
Zōnarā (singular vocative)

[ˈd̪͡z̪oːnäräːs̠]

[ˈd̪͡z̪ɔːnäräs]

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Ζωνᾰρᾶς (Zōnarâs).

a surname from Byzantine Greek — famously held by:

Joannes Zonaras (fl. 12th C.), Byzantine Constantinopolitan chronicler and theologian


Goesius

Goesius m sg (genitive Goesiī or Goesī); second declension

Goesiī (genitive)
Goesī (genitive)
Goesius (nominative singular)
Goesiī (genitive singular)
Goesī (genitive singular)
Goesiō (dative singular)
Goesium (accusative singular)
Goesiō (ablative singular)
Goesī (singular vocative)

(New Latin) a surname from Dutch — famously held by:

Guilelmus Goesius (1611–1686), Dutch writer who wrote frequently under the pseudonym “Lucius Verus”


Juntinus

Juntīnus m sg (genitive Juntīnī); second declension

Juntīnus (canonical masculine singular)
Juntīnī (genitive)
Juntīnus (nominative singular)
Juntīnī (genitive singular)
Juntīnō (dative singular)
Juntīnum (accusative singular)
Juntīnō (ablative singular)
Juntīne (singular vocative)

[i̯ʊn̪ˈt̪iːnʊs̠]

a surname — held by:
Franciscus Juntinus


Roletus

Rōlētus m sg (genitive Rōlētī); second declension

Rōlētus (canonical masculine singular)
Rōlētī (genitive)
Rōlētus (nominative singular)
Rōlētī (genitive singular)
Rōlētō (dative singular)
Rōlētum (accusative singular)
Rōlētō (ablative singular)
Rōlēte (singular vocative)

[roːˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]

Latinisation of the Middle French Rollet (given name) and the French Roulet, Roullet (surnames).


Gerardi

Gerardī m pl (genitive Gerardōrum); second declension

Gerardī (canonical masculine plural)
Gerardōrum (genitive)

(New Latin) a surname, equivalent to English Gerard, and see: French Gérard.


Cartesius

Cartesius m sg (genitive Cartesiī or Cartesī); second declension

Cartesiī (genitive)
Cartesī (genitive)
Cartesius (nominative singular)
Cartesiī (genitive singular)
Cartesī (genitive singular)
Cartesiō (dative singular)
Cartesium (accusative singular)
Cartesiō (ablative singular)
Cartesī (singular vocative)

Derived from Middle French Descartes, one of several surnames originating in the Reformation period denoting support for the compromise of religious charters for each municipality, indicating adherence to a Catholic or Protestant denomination. Compare also the surname of his mother Brochard and the Germanic variant Broschart, corresponding to pro- (“for, supporting, on behalf of”) + charta (“charter”).

compound

René Descartes latinized to Renatus Cartesius


Habsburgus

la-proper noun

Habsburgus m (genitive Habsburgī); second declension

Habsburgī (genitive)
Habsburgus (nominative singular)
Habsburgī (nominative plural)
Habsburgī (genitive singular)
Habsburgōrum (genitive plural)
Habsburgō (dative singular)
Habsburgīs (dative plural)
Habsburgum (accusative singular)
Habsburgōs (accusative plural)
Habsburgō (ablative singular)
Habsburgīs (ablative plural)
Habsburge (singular vocative)
Habsburgī (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Habsburg, cp. Havichsburch (hauichsburch) (1108).

[…] Rudolphus Habsburgus electus est in Regem Romanorum, eodem die.

1705, Sebastian Heinrich Penzinger, Novissimum historiae quatuor mundi monarchiarum […] , page 260:

[…] Rudolf Habsburg was elected King of the Romans the same day.


Chaixius

Chaixius m sg (genitive Chaixiī or Chaixī); second declension

Translingual: chaixii

[kʰäˈɪks̠iʊs̠]


Candolleus

Candolleus m sg (genitive Candolleī); second declension

Translingual: candollei

[kän̪ˈd̪ɔlːʲeʊs̠]


Braheus

possibly: Translingual: Brahea


Galileus

[ɡäˈlʲɪɫ̪eʊs̠]

Latininization of Italian + -us
* (surname): Italian Galilei
* (scientist): Italian Galileo (Galileo Galilei)


Keplerus

Keplerus m sg (genitive Keplerī); second declension

Keplerī (genitive)
Keplerus (nominative singular)
Keplerī (genitive singular)
Keplerō (dative singular)
Keplerum (accusative singular)
Keplerō (ablative singular)
Keplere (singular vocative)

[ˈkɛpɫ̪ɛrʊs̠]

a male surname from German, equivalent to German Kepler — famously held by:

Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, astrologist, mathematician, and natural philosopher.


Gerlachus

→ English: Gerlachus (learned)

→ German: Gerlachus (learned)

→ Dutch: Gerlachus (learned)

[ˈɡɛrɫ̪äkʰʊs̠]

Borrowed from Germanic (compare Middle High German Gerlach). Literally, “spear thrower”.

a surname, Gerlach, from the Germanic languages


Hordienko

Hordienko m sg (variously declined, genitive Hordienkae or Hordienko); indeclinable, first declension

Hordienko (canonical masculine singular)
Hordienko (canonical feminine)
Hordienkae (genitive)
Hordienko (genitive)

From Late Middle Ukrainian Гордіє́нко (Hordijénko).

...ad ineundum publicum consilium cum Praeside suo, Domino Constantino Hordienko, Attamano Praetoriano, ...

1711, Pacta conventa inter dominium Crymense et exercitum Zaporoviensem gentemque Parvae Rossiae in perpetuam amicitiam, confraternitatem et unionem armorum indissolubilem, circa Cairam, anno salutis nostrae 1711, Ianuarii 23 die:

to have a meeting with his overseer, the warlord Kost Hordienko, ataman of the troops


Chmielnicius

Chmielnicius m sg (genitive Chmielniciī or Chmielnicī); second declension

Chmielniciī (genitive)
Chmielnicī (genitive)
Chmielnicius (nominative singular)
Chmielniciī (genitive singular)
Chmielnicī (genitive singular)
Chmielniciō (dative singular)
Chmielnicium (accusative singular)
Chmielniciō (ablative singular)
Chmielnicī (singular vocative)

Latinized from Middle Polish Chmielnicki, equivalent to Polish chmielnik + -ius.

(New Latin) a surname from Ukrainian, famously borne by Bohdan Khmelnytsky


Vidius

Vidius m sg (genitive Vidiī or Vidī); second declension

[ˈu̯ɪd̪iʊs̠]

Vidus Vidius, b. 1509


Pistorius

→ English: Pistorius

→ Dutch: Pistorius

→ Afrikaans: Pistorius

→ German: Pistorius

pistor + -ius. A latinized surname for a baker or miller.

Pistorius: a surname originating as an occupation


Bonapars

la-noun

Bonapars f sg (genitive Bonapartis); third declension

Bonapartis (genitive)
Bonapars (nominative singular)
Bonapartis (genitive singular)
Bonapartī (dative singular)
Bonapartem (accusative singular)
Bonapartim (accusative singular)
Bonaparte (ablative singular)
Bonapartī (ablative singular)
Bonapars (singular vocative)

Phono-semantic matching of Corsican Buonaparte, from bona + pars.

psm

(New Latin) a male surname from Corsican — famously held by:

Neapolio I. Bonapars, Imperator Francorum (1769–1821; r. 1804–1814, March–June 1815)

Neapolio II. Bonapars, Rex Romae (1811–1832; r. 1811–1814)

Ludovicus Neapolio III. Bonapars, Imperator Francorum (1808–1873; r. 1852–1870)


Fontius

la-proper noun

Fontius m sg (genitive Fontiī or Fontī); second declension

Italian: Fonzio

Bartholomeus Fontius, b. 1445


Seguerius

Seguerius m sg (genitive Segueriī or Seguerī, feminine Segueria); second declension

Segueriī (genitive)
Seguerī (genitive)
Segueria (feminine)
Seguerius (nominative singular)
Segueriī (genitive singular)
Seguerī (genitive singular)
Segueriō (dative singular)
Seguerium (accusative singular)
Segueriō (ablative singular)
Seguerī (singular vocative)


Sefeldius

Sefeldius m sg (genitive Sefeldiī or Sefeldī); second declension

Sefeldiī (genitive)
Sefeldī (genitive)
Sefeldius (nominative singular)
Sefeldiī (genitive singular)
Sefeldī (genitive singular)
Sefeldiō (dative singular)
Sefeldium (accusative singular)
Sefeldiō (ablative singular)
Sefeldī (singular vocative)

Latinization of Danish Seefeld, with suffixation of Latin -ius.


Debes

Debes m sg or f sg (variously declined, genitive Debes or Debesis); indeclinable, third declension

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Debes.

Lucas Jacobi f. Debes (1623–1675), Danish priest, topographer, and writer


Buchenavius

Buchenavius m (genitive Buchenaviī or Buchenavī); second declension

Buchenaviī (genitive)
Buchenavī (genitive)
Buchenavius (nominative singular)
Buchenaviī (nominative plural)
Buchenaviī (genitive singular)
Buchenavī (genitive singular)
Buchenaviōrum (genitive plural)
Buchenaviō (dative singular)
Buchenaviīs (dative plural)
Buchenavium (accusative singular)
Buchenaviōs (accusative plural)
Buchenaviō (ablative singular)
Buchenaviīs (ablative plural)
Buchenavī (singular vocative)
Buchenaviī (plural vocative)

a surname from German, equivalent to German Buchenau


Davidius

Dāvīdius m sg (genitive Dāvīdiī or Dāvīdī); second declension

Dāvīdius (canonical masculine singular)
Dāvīdiī (genitive)
Dāvīdī (genitive)
Dāvīdius (nominative singular)
Dāvīdiī (genitive singular)
Dāvīdī (genitive singular)
Dāvīdiō (dative singular)
Dāvīdium (accusative singular)
Dāvīdiō (ablative singular)
Dāvīdī (singular vocative)

desc

Translingual: davidi, Davidia, davidianus, davidii

[d̪äːˈu̯iːd̪iʊs̠]


Reichenbachius

la-proper noun

Reichenbachius m sg (genitive Reichenbachiī or Reichenbachī); second declension

Reichenbachiī (genitive)
Reichenbachī (genitive)
Reichenbachius (nominative singular)
Reichenbachiī (genitive singular)
Reichenbachī (genitive singular)
Reichenbachiō (dative singular)
Reichenbachium (accusative singular)
Reichenbachiō (ablative singular)
Reichenbachī (singular vocative)

[…]Cyprianus cognominat nectareas, Joh. Reichenbachius in meditat.

1705, Christian Warlitz, Christiani Warlitzii […] scrutinium lacrymarum medico-sacrum, →OCLC, page 17:

Obſervandum, quod ſupremus Conſiſtorii Præſes Reichenbachius hoc anno generalem inquiſitionem in Prædicantes inſtituere a Rege juſſus,[…]

1786, Claude Fleury, Claudii Fleurii abbatis Historia ecclesiastica, →OCLC, page 165:

(New Latin) a male surname from German, equivalent to German Reichenbach.


Hevelius

Hevelius m sg (genitive Heveliī or Hevelī); second declension

Heveliī (genitive)
Hevelī (genitive)
Hevelius (nominative singular)
Heveliī (genitive singular)
Hevelī (genitive singular)
Heveliō (dative singular)
Hevelium (accusative singular)
Heveliō (ablative singular)
Hevelī (singular vocative)

a male surname from German — famously held by:

Johannes Hevelius, a Polish astronomer of German ancestry.