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Shakespearius
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Latin
Etymology
From English Shakespeare + -ius.
Pronunciation
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ʃekˈspiː.ri.us]
Proper noun
Shakespeārius m sg (genitive Shakespeāriī); second declension
- Shakespeare
- 1765, Origines Typographicae. Gerardo Meerman Auctore. Tomus Alter., page VII:
- Si quæras, e quibus fontibus quoad facta hiſtorica biberit Shakeſpearius, reſpondebit Anonymus in vitis Poetarum Anglorum (the Poetical Regiſter) Vol. II. p. 231. edit. Lond. 1724. eum conſuluiſſe fabianum, pol. virgilium, hallium, molinshedium, graftonum, stowium, speedium, &c.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1799, Aristophanis Nubes, page XXXIX:
- Tragicae autem illae comoediae quales ſint, quibusdam ſcenis tragoediarum ſuarum ostendit Shakeſpearius.
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- 1811, Aeschyli Tragœdiæ Quæ Supersunt, Deperditarum Fabularum Fragmenta, page 176:
- Nec ipse quidem Shakespearius major esse potuit.
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Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
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