Hortensius

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /horˈten.si.us/, [hɔrˈt̪ẽːs̠iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈten.si.us/, [orˈt̪ɛnsius]

Hortēnsius m sg (genitive Hortēnsiī or Hortēnsī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, a Roman orator
      • 1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:

        He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Hortēnsia
• Hortēnsiānus

Hortēnsius (feminine Hortēnsia, neuter Hortēnsium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the gens Hortensia.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Hortensius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hortensius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.