"Plutarchus" meaning in Latin

See Plutarchus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: [pɫuːˈtar.kʰʊs] [Classical-Latin], [pluˈtar.kus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Koine Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos, from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches; Pluto”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”)). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{com|grc|πλοῦτος|ἀρχός|nocat=1|t1=riches; Pluto|t2=ruler}} πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches; Pluto”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”), {{bor|la|grc-koi|Πλούτᾰρχος|pos=from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">πλοῦτος</i> (ploûtos, “riches; Pluto”) + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">ἀρχός</i> (arkhós, “ruler”)}} Koine Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos, from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches; Pluto”) + ἀρχός (arkhós, “ruler”)) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Plūtarchus<2>|g=m}} Plūtarchus m sg (genitive Plūtarchī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Plūtarchus<2>}} Forms: Plūtarchus [canonical, masculine, singular], Plūtarchī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Plūtarchus [nominative, singular], Plūtarchī [genitive, singular], Plūtarchō [dative, singular], Plūtarchum [accusative, singular], Plūtarchō [ablative, singular], Plūtarche [singular, vocative]
  1. Plutarch of Chaeronea (Lūcius Mestrius Plūtarchus, ca. 46 CE – 120 CE), a celebrated Graeco-Roman philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi; best known for writing his Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, a biographical series commonly referred to as Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-Plutarchus-la-name-FcKoF4H6 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Historiography, Individuals, Philosophy Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 66 34 Disambiguation of Historiography: 58 42 Disambiguation of Individuals: 60 40 Disambiguation of Philosophy: 60 40
  2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to Greek Πλούταρχος (Ploútarchos) or English Plutarch Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-Plutarchus-la-name-I1AvlfAx Categories (other): Latin given names, Latin male given names, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greece Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 33 67 Disambiguation of Ancient Greece: 30 70
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.