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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Stadius m sg (genitive Stadiī or Stadī); second declension

  1. a male given name
    • ante AD 62, Aulus Persius Flaccus (author), Charles William Stocker (editor), Satire VI in The Satires of Juvenal and Persius, from the texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English notes, partly compiled, and partly original (second edition, 1839), page 454, lines 65–69:
      Ubi sit, fuge quærere, quod mihi quondam // Legârat Stadius; neu dicta repone paterna,— // ‘Feneris accedat merces; hinc exime sumtus!’ // “Quid reliquum est?” Reliquum? nunc, nunc impensius unge, // Unge, puer, caules.

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Stadius
genitive Stadiī
Stadī1
dative Stadiō
accusative Stadium
ablative Stadiō
vocative Stadī

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

References

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  • Stadius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Stădĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,473/2.