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- Italian Wiktionary: TulliusCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Wikidata Q118394135CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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A given name in Swedish and Latin
/ˈtul.li.us/ · Latin
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Tullius is a given name documented in Swedish and Latin.
di probabile origine etrusca
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04 / Through time
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TULLIUS— “spout of blood (?)”
…In the latter days, the prænomen was given on the eighth day, with a lustratio or washing of the infant. There was a very small choice of Roman prænomina, not above seventeen; an initial was sufficient to indicate which might be intended, nor did ladies receive their feminines in the earlier times. By which name a man might be called was arbitrary; the gentile name was the distinction of rank, and perhaps the most commonly used by his acquaintance, unless the tribe were very…
…In the latter days, the prænomen was given on the eighth day, with a lustratio or washing of the infant. There was a very small choice of Roman prænomina, not above seventeen; an initial was sufficient to indicate which might be intended, nor did ladies receive their feminines in the earlier times. By which name a man might be called was arbitrary; the gentile name was the distinction of rank, and perhaps the most commonly used by his acquaintance, unless the tribe were very large, when the cognomen would be used; and among brothers the prænomen was brought in first as the Christian name is with us. The great Marcus Tullius Cicero was called Cicero by those who only knew him politically, while to his correspondents he was Tullius; his son, of the same name, was termed Marcus Cicero; his brother, Quintus Cicero; and Caius Julius Cæsar figures in contemporary correspondence as C. Cæsar.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter I (Latin Nomenclature) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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