Sextus

See also: sextus

Latin

An aureus with on the obverse the profile of Sextus Pompeius "Magnus Pius" and profiles of his murdered father and brother on the reverse.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sextus, probably originally referring to the month of birth, sextīlis (“August”), rather than to birth order.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sextus m (genitive Sextī); second declension

  1. a masculine praenomen, particularly popular in Gaul. (Occasionally also found as a cognomen.) In particular:
    1. Sextus Pompeius (a Roman general from the late Republic)
      • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistuale ad Atticum 16.4.2.1:
        Sextum autem nūntiant cum ūnā sōlum legiōne fuisse ad Carthāginem
        The messengers further report that Sextus had been at Carthage with only one legion

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Sextus Sextī
genitive Sextī Sextōrum
dative Sextō Sextīs
accusative Sextum Sextōs
ablative Sextō Sextīs
vocative Sexte Sextī

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Σέξτος (Séxtos)

See also

Roman praenomina: praenominaedit

References

  1. ^ Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, editor (1 January 2005), The Oxford Classical Dictionary‎[1], 3 edition, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1024

Further reading

  • “Sextus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Sextus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • 1916, Lindley Richard Dean, A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions, page 72,79:
    The use of Primus, Secundus, Tertius, Quintus, Sextus, and Decimus as praenomina is noted in a later section. Quintus and Sextus, the latter particularly, seem to have been used longer as praenomina and for that reason their employment as cognomina falls later than the first century. […] The numeral adjectives Primus, Secundus, Tertius, and Sextus were employed as praenomina at one time. The use of Sextus as a praenomen is probably more common than as a cognomen.
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