Ovidius

From ovis (“sheep”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈu̯i.di.us/, [oˈu̯ɪd̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈvi.di.us/, [oˈviːd̪ius]

Ovidius m (genitive Ovidiī or Ovidī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

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

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