Horatius

Revision History

Date	Editor	Change Summary
11/20/2020, 10:42 PM	Mike C	update #109
11/16/2019, 11:04 AM	Mike C	update #105
6/13/2019, 12:17 AM	Mike C	update #104
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM	Mike C	earliest recorded revision

Gender Masculine

Usage Ancient Roman

Pronounced Pron. /ho.ˈraː.ti.us/

Meaning & History

Roman family name that was possibly derived from Latin hora meaning "hour, time, season", though the name may actually be of Etruscan origin. A famous bearer was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a Roman lyric poet of the 1st century BC who is better known as Horace in the English-speaking world.