Latin

Alternative forms

• Lact. abbreviation

Proper noun

Lactantius m ‎(genitive Lactantiī); second declension

1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (circa AD 250–325), a celebrated father of the Church, famous for the purity of his Latin style, and sometimes called the Christian Cicero

Declension

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: Lactance

References

• Lactantĭus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Lactantĭus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 881/1.