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lucretius

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
lu-cretius
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.

name

Titus Lucretius Carus, a first-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.

Etymology

From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 1st-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

Derived Forms

Lucret Lucretian

Frequently Paired Words

Lucretia Lucretian

Questions

What does lucretius mean?
A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
Where does lucretius come from?
From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 1st-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.

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