Ennius

In Messapia/Iapygia in southern Italy such as Ennius, interpreted as a theophoric name: "the one dedicated to En". (Lambertz 1973 p476) (Treimer 1971 p32)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn.ni.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛn.ni.us]

Ennius m sg (genitive Enniī or Ennī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Quintus Ennius, a Roman poet

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Ennia
• Enniānus

• Ancient Greek: Ἔννιος (Énnios)
• Italian: Ennio

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