Apuleius

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Apuleius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæpjuˈli.əs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Apuleius

1. An author in the Roman Empire, Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis.

Translations

author in the Roman Empire

• Armenian: Ապուլեոս (Apuleos)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿普列烏斯 / 阿普列乌斯 (Āpǔlièwūsī)

• Danish: Apulejus m
• Dutch: Apuleius m
• French: Apulée (fr) m
• Georgian: აპულეიუსი (aṗuleiusi)
• German: Apuleius m, Apulejus m, Appulejus m

  Alemannic German: Apuleios m

• Greek: Απουλήιος (el) m (Apoulíios)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀπουλήϊος m (Apoulḗïos)

• Hungarian: Apuleius m
• Italian: Apuleio m
• Japanese: アプレイウス (Apureiusu)
• Korean: 아풀레이우스 (Apulleiuseu)
• Latin: Apuleius (la) m
• Luxembourgish: Apuleius m
• Polish: Apulejusz m
• Portuguese: Apuleio m
• Russian: Апуле́й m (Apuléj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Апулеј m

  Latin: Apulej m

• Slovene: Apulej m
• Spanish: Apuleyo m
• Swedish: Apuleius c

See also

• Apuleius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apuleius on Wikiquote.Wikiquote

Latin

Alternative forms

• Appuleius
• Apul. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Possibly from the praenomen Appius + -uleius. The form Appuleius features in older inscriptions.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pʊˈɫɛj.jʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.puˈlɛj.jus]
• If the name is simplified from Appuleius and is related to Appius, the first A is short.

Proper noun

Apuleius m sg (genitive Apuleiī or Apuleī); second declension

1. A masculine nomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (138–100 BC), tribunus plebis in 103 and 100 BC
   2. Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (circa AD 124–170), a spirited and flowery – but sometimes bombastic – writer, whose principal work yet extant is called Metamorphoseon sive de Asino Aureo libri XI.
   3. (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus (fl. AD 4th C.), pseudonymous author of a Herbarium popular throughout the Early and High Middle Ages

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Apuleius
genitive	Apuleiī Apuleī1
dative	Apuleiō
accusative	Apuleium
ablative	Apuleiō
vocative	Apuleī

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

Descendants

• English: Apuleius
• French: Apulée
• Greek: Απουλήιος (Apoulíios)
• Portuguese: Apuleio
• Spanish: Apuleyo

Further reading

• Apuleius (disambiguation) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Lucius Apuleius Saturninus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Apuleius Madaurensis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• (Pseudo-)Apuleius Platonicus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

Adjective

Apuleius (feminine Apuleia, neuter Apuleium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of Apuleius
   1. (of a law or laws) proposed by the tribunus plebis L. Apuleius Saturninus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	Apuleius	Apuleia	Apuleium		Apuleiī	Apuleiae	Apuleia
genitive	Apuleiī	Apuleiae	Apuleiī		Apuleiōrum	Apuleiārum	Apuleiōrum
dative	Apuleiō	Apuleiae	Apuleiō		Apuleiīs
accusative	Apuleium	Apuleiam	Apuleium		Apuleiōs	Apuleiās	Apuleia
ablative	Apuleiō	Apuleiā	Apuleiō		Apuleiīs
vocative	Apuleie	Apuleia	Apuleium		Apuleiī	Apuleiae	Apuleia

References

• “Apuleius” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “Appŭlēius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Apŭlēĭus (App-)”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 149/3.
• “Āpulēius” on page 156 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)