Cornelius
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɔɹˈniliəs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɔːˈniːlɪəs/
- Hyphenation: Cor‧ne‧lius
Proper noun
Cornelius
- A male given name from Latin.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:1-2:
- There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
- 2014, Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 213:
- The intern will not call me 'Cornelius―(in fact, that dowdy old name isn't my actual name nor, at the present time, my nom de guerre)―but 'Dr. Hinton*―or 'sir'―will do.
Usage notes
- Name of early Christian saints with a medieval cult in the Low Countries. The name has remained rather rare in English.
- Cornelius has been used as an anglicization of Conchobhar in Ireland.
Related terms
- feminine form: Cornelia
Translations
male given name
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Latin
Etymology
Possibly related to cornū (“horn”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /korˈneː.li.us/, [kɔrˈneːlʲiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /korˈne.li.us/, [korˈnɛːlius]
Proper noun
Cornēlius m (genitive Cornēliī or Cornēlī, feminine Cornēlia); second declension
- An old Roman gens name.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Cornēlius | Cornēliī |
Genitive | Cornēliī Cornēlī1 |
Cornēliōrum |
Dative | Cornēliō | Cornēliīs |
Accusative | Cornēlium | Cornēliōs |
Ablative | Cornēliō | Cornēliīs |
Vocative | Cornēlī | Cornēliī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- Cornēlĭānus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “Cornelius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cornelius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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