Scipiadas

Latin

Alternative forms

• Scīpiadēs

Etymology

Borrowed from Doric Greek Σκιπιάδᾱς (Skipiádās), derived from Ancient Greek Σκιπίων (Skipíōn), itself a borrowing from Latin Scīpiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skiːˈpi.a.daːs/, [s̠kiːˈpiäd̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈpi.a.das/, [ʃiˈpiːäd̪äs]

Noun

Scīpiadās m (genitive Scīpiadae); first declension

1. (poetic) a member of the Scipio family, usually referring to Scipio Africanus and his close relatives
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.170:

     Scipiadas duros bello et te, maxime Caesar, qui nunc extremis Asiae iam uictor in oris imbellem auertis Romanis arcibus Indum.

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.1034:

     Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror, ossa dedit terrae proinde ac famul infimus esset.

   • 480 CE – 524 CE, Boethius, Commentaria in Porphyrium 2.3:

     Item in illa prima significationis multitudine huius secundae particularitas continetur, ut in Romanorum genere Scipiadarum genus, natura cum sunt Romani Scipiadae sunt.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Scīpiadās	Scīpiadae
Genitive	Scīpiadae	Scīpiadārum
Dative	Scīpiadae	Scīpiadīs
Accusative	Scīpiadam Scīpiadān	Scīpiadās
Ablative	Scīpiadā	Scīpiadīs
Vocative	Scīpiadā	Scīpiadae

References

• “Scīpĭădas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Scīpĭădās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1403.
• Scīpiadās in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung