Latin

Proper noun

Ovidius m ‎(genitive Ovidiī); second declension

1. The name of a Roman gēns.
2. The Roman poet Ovid.

Declension

Second declension.

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

Descendants

• English: Ovid
• Italian: Ovidio

References

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