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Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Roman, Late Roman
Meaning & History
Given name derived from the Latin vetus > veturius, meaning "senior, veteran, expert, with long experience". The gens Veturia, anciently called Vetusia, was a patrician family at Rome, which also had plebeian branches. The patrician branch was of great antiquity. According to legendary history, Mamurius Veturius lived in the time of Numa Pompilius, and made the sacred Ancilia. Veturia was a Roman matron, the mother of the possibly legendary Roman general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. Veturia came from a patrician family and encouraged her son's involvement in Roman politics. Used by a saint