Latin

Proper noun

Caecilius m ‎(genitive Caeciliī); second declension

1. The name of a Roman gens.

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

• Caecilia
• Caeciliānus

Descendants

• English: Cecil
• Italian: Cecilio
• Spanish: Cecilio

References

• Caecilius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Caecilius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.