Aemilius

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from aemulus (“rival”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈmi.li.us/, [äe̯ˈmɪlʲiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈmi.li.us/, [eˈmiːlius]

Proper noun

Aemilius m (genitive Aemiliī or Aemilī, feminine Aemilia); second declension

1. A Roman gens name.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Aemilius	Aemiliī
genitive	Aemiliī Aemilī1	Aemiliōrum
dative	Aemiliō	Aemiliīs
accusative	Aemilium	Aemiliōs
ablative	Aemiliō	Aemiliīs
vocative	Aemilī	Aemiliī

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

Derived terms

• Aemiliānus

Related terms

• Aemilia

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Αἰμίλιος (Aimílios), Αἰμύλιος (Aimúlios)
  • Greek: Αιμίλιος (Aimílios), Αιμιλία (Aimilía)
• → Bulgarian: Еми́л (Emíl), Еми́лия (Emílija)
• → Danish: Emil, Emilie
• → Dutch: Emiel, Emilie, Melle, Emma
• → English: Emil, Emile, Emily
• → Finnish: Eemeli, Eemil, Emilia
• French: Émile, Émilie
• → German: Emil, Emilie
• Italian: Emilio
• → Macedonian: Емилија (Emilija)
• → Norwegian: Emil, Emilie
• → Polish: Emil
• Romanian: Emil
• → Russian: Эми́ль (Emílʹ), Эми́лия (Emílija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Emil, Emilija
• Spanish: Emilio, Emilia
• → Swedish: Emil, Emilia
• → Ukrainian: Омеля́н (Omelján)

References

• “Aemilius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press