Coriolanus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Corioli

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin Coriolānus

From Corioli (“name of a town”) + -ānus (“-an”, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔ.ri.ɔˈɫaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.ri.oˈlaː.nus]
• Hyphenation: Co‧ri‧o‧lā‧nus

Adjective

Coriolānus (feminine Coriolāna, neuter Coriolānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of, or from, Coriolī.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	Coriolānus	Coriolāna	Coriolānum		Coriolānī	Coriolānae	Coriolāna
genitive	Coriolānī	Coriolānae	Coriolānī		Coriolānōrum	Coriolānārum	Coriolānōrum
dative	Coriolānō	Coriolānae	Coriolānō		Coriolānīs
accusative	Coriolānum	Coriolānam	Coriolānum		Coriolānōs	Coriolānās	Coriolāna
ablative	Coriolānō	Coriolānā	Coriolānō		Coriolānīs
vocative	Coriolāne	Coriolāna	Coriolānum		Coriolānī	Coriolānae	Coriolāna

Proper noun

Coriolānus m (genitive Coriolānī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gnaeus (or Gāius) Mārcius Coriolānus, a Roman general

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Coriolānus	Coriolānī
genitive	Coriolānī	Coriolānōrum
dative	Coriolānō	Coriolānīs
accusative	Coriolānum	Coriolānōs
ablative	Coriolānō	Coriolānīs
vocative	Coriolāne	Coriolānī

Descendants

• Italian: Coriolano

Further reading

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