Boethius

Borrowed from Latin Boēthius.

Boethius

1. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–524 CE), Roman historian and philosopher from the Early Middle Ages.

• “Boethius”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Derived from Ancient Greek βοηθός (boēthós, “helper”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [boˈeː.tʰi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [boˈɛː.ti.us]

Boēthius m sg (genitive Boēthiī or Boēthī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Roman historian and philosopher from the Early Middle Ages.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

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