Apicius

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Suggested sources include *apicus from Ancient Greek ἄποκος (ápokos, “hairless”) or ἄποικος (ápoikos, “colonist”), or apex via *apicō, thus meaning “priest, one who wears a conical hat”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpiː.ki.us/, [äˈpiːkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpi.t͡ʃi.us/, [äˈpiːt͡ʃius]

Proper noun

Apīcius m sg (genitive Apīciī or Apīcī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Gavius Apicius, a Roman cookbook writer

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Apīcius
genitive	Apīciī Apīcī1
dative	Apīciō
accusative	Apīcium
ablative	Apīciō
vocative	Apīcī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Apīciānus

References

• “Apicius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Apicius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.