Acilianus

Latin

Etymology

From Acīlius + -ānus (suffix forming an adjective of belonging or origin).

Adjective

Acīliānus (feminine Acīliāna, neuter Acīliānum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to Acīlius (a Roman name)
    • prior to 17 C.E., Livy [i.e., Titus Livius], translated by Frank Gardener Moore, Livy, with an English Translation, volumes 6 (Books XXIII–XXV), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 1940, book 25, chapter 39, from line 12, pages 492–3, Perseus Digital Library:
      Ad triginta septem milia hostium caesa auctor est Claudius, qui annales Acilianos ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem vertit, captos ad mille octingentos triginta, praedam ingentem partam;
      That about thirty-seven thousand of the enemy were slain is the statement of Claudius, who translated Acilius' annals out of Greek into the Latin language; that about one thousand eight hundred and thirty were captured and a vast amount of booty taken.
      (Transcribed text available in Perseus: Latin English)
    • prior to 17 C.E., Livy [i.e., Titus Livius], translated by Evan T. Sage, Livy, with an English Translation, volumes 10 (Books XXXV–XXXVII), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, published 1935, book 35, chapter 14, from line 5, pages 40–2, Perseus Digital Library:
      Claudius, secutus Graecos Acilianos libros, P. Africanum in ea fuisse legatione tradit eumque Ephesi collocutum cum Hannibale, []
      Claudius, following the Greek history of Acilius, reports that Publius Africanus was a member of that embassy and that at Ephesus he conferred with Hannibal, []
      (Transcribed text available in Perseus: Latin English)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative Acīliānus Acīliāna Acīliānum Acīliānī Acīliānae Acīliāna
Genitive Acīliānī Acīliānae Acīliānī Acīliānōrum Acīliānārum Acīliānōrum
Dative Acīliānō Acīliānō Acīliānīs
Accusative Acīliānum Acīliānam Acīliānum Acīliānōs Acīliānās Acīliāna
Ablative Acīliānō Acīliānā Acīliānō Acīliānīs
Vocative Acīliāne Acīliāna Acīliānum Acīliānī Acīliānae Acīliāna
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