English

Proper noun

Cornelius

1. A male given name.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), 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.

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

Anagrams

• inclosure
• reclusion
• suriclone

Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to cornu ‎(“horn”).

Proper noun

Cornelius m ‎(genitive Corneliī); second declension

1. An old Roman gens name.

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

• Cornēlĭānus

Related terms

• Cornelia

References

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