Atticus

English

Etymology

From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós). Doublet of Attic.

Proper noun

Atticus

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, Random House, published 2014, →ISBN:

     ... yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

Translations

male given name

• Catalan: Àtic m
• Italian: Attico m
• Portuguese: Ático m
• Spanish: Ático m

Anagrams

• TACITUS, Tacitus, catsuit

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a clipped Attica +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ti.kus/, [ˈät̪ːikus]

Adjective

Atticus (feminine Attica, neuter Atticum, adverb Atticē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (in general) of or pertaining to Attica or Athens, Attic, Athenian
2. (appellative) designating the highest grade of style, philosophy, eloquence, etc.
3. (transferred sense) excellent, preeminent, preferable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	Atticus	Attica	Atticum		Atticī	Atticae	Attica
Genitive	Atticī	Atticae	Atticī		Atticōrum	Atticārum	Atticōrum
Dative	Atticō		Atticō		Atticīs
Accusative	Atticum	Atticam	Atticum		Atticōs	Atticās	Attica
Ablative	Atticō	Atticā	Atticō		Atticīs
Vocative	Attice	Attica	Atticum		Atticī	Atticae	Attica

Derived terms

• Atticī m pl

Descendants

• English: Attic

Proper noun

Atticus m sg (genitive Atticī, feminine Attica); second declension

1. a male cognomen
   1. T. Pomponius Atticus (110–32 B.C.E.), close friend of and famed correspondent with M. Tullius Cicero
   2. a friend of P. Ovidius Naso
   3. Antonius Atticus (C.E. 1st century), Latin rhetorician
   4. Vipsanius Atticus (C.E. 1st or 2nd century), buried at Catina in Sicilia

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Atticus
Genitive	Atticī
Dative	Atticō
Accusative	Atticum
Ablative	Atticō
Vocative	Attice

Descendants

• → English: Atticus

Further reading

• “Attĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Attĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 183/3.