Acilius

Acilius

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dytiscidae – certain diving beetles.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkiː.li.us/, [äˈkiːlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃi.li.us/, [äˈt͡ʃiːlius]

Acīlius (feminine Acīlia, neuter Acīlium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Acilian (of or pertaining to the Acilia gens)

First/second-declension adjective.

Acīlius m (genitive Acīliī or Acīlī); second declension

2. The name of a Roman gens, famously held by:
   2. Gaius Acilius (a Roman historian and senator)

Second-declension noun.

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

• Acīliānus (“pertaining to Acilius”, adjective)

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

•   Acilia gens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia