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01 / Meaning & origin
Lucretius is a masculine given name documented in English and Polish. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Lucretius.
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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LUCRETIUS— “gain (?)”
Lucretius, the name of a noted old gens, is probably from the same source, though some take it from _lucrum_ (gain). “Lucrece, combing the fleece under the midnight lamp,” that fine characteristic Roman tale, furnished Shakespeare with an early poem; and Lucrezia was one of the first classic names revived by the Italians; and though borne by the notorious daughter of the Borgia, has continued fashionable with them and with the French, who make it Lucrèce; while we have now…
Lucretius, the name of a noted old gens, is probably from the same source, though some take it from _lucrum_ (gain). “Lucrece, combing the fleece under the midnight lamp,” that fine characteristic Roman tale, furnished Shakespeare with an early poem; and Lucrezia was one of the first classic names revived by the Italians; and though borne by the notorious daughter of the Borgia, has continued fashionable with them and with the French, who make it Lucrèce; while we have now and then a Lucretia, learnt probably from the fanciful designations of the taste of the eighteenth century.[53]
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter II (Latin Prænomina), Section II (Lucius) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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