Smalcius

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsmal.ki.us/, [ˈs̠mäɫ̪kiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsmal.t͡ʃi.us/, [ˈzmäl̠ʲt͡ʃius]

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

1. a surname — famously held by:
   1. Valentinus Smalcius (1572–1622), German Socinian theologian
      • 1598, Johann Friedrich Köber (author of the original), Friedrich August Ferber (expanding contributor), Diſſertatiunculæ de Sangvine Jeſu Chriſti, dissertatiuncula XXIV, pages 334–335:

        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.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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