English
Lucretius
Lucretius comes from Latin Lucretius.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELucretius
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELucretius
- Englishtodaysame form
The story
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.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- ‘profit, gain’
lay, nickel, lewd, laity, 8 more
through Latin lucrum ‘profit’
Today it means
name A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Lucretius / Lucretius