Renius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.ni.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.ni.us]

Proper noun

Renius m sg (genitive Reniī or Renī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Gaius Renius, a Roman moneyer

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Renius
genitive	Reniī Renī1
dative	Reniō
accusative	Renium
ablative	Reniō
vocative	Renī

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

References

• “Renia gens”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray