Vespasianus

From Middle English Vespasianus, from Latin Vespasiānus.

Vespasianus

1. Alternative form of Vespasian (“a Roman cognomen”).
   • 1577, Eusebius, translated by Meredith Hanmer, “Of the Vtter Besieging of the Iewes after the Passion and Resurrection of Christ”, in The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book 3, page 37:

     After that Nero had raygned thirtene yeares: Otho and Galba one yeare, and ſix monethes: Veſpaſianus was counted a potent Pꝛince in Iudæa, amonge the armyes appoynted againſt the Ievves, and being pꝛoclaymed Emperour of the hoaſt that there was, foꝛthe with he is ſent to Rome, committing vnto his ſonne Titus the warres, in hande agaynſte the Ievves.

   • 1837, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume IX (Dionysius–Erne), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], →OCLC, page 75, column 1:

     DOMITIA′NUS, TITUS FLAVIUS, younger son of the Emperor Vespasianus, succeeded his brother Titus as emperor, a.d. 81.

   • 2017, Anthony Riches, chapter 9, in Betrayal (The Centurions; 1), London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 291:

     At just about the same time that, as we know now, Vespasianus was declaring himself emperor in the east?

Apparently from Vespasiae, a town near Nursia in Samnium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛs.pa.siˈaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ves.pa.s̬iˈaː.nus]

Vespasiānus m (genitive Vespasiānī); second declension

1. Vespasian (Roman cognomen)

   Titus Flavius Vespasianus — the Roman emperor from AD 69 to 79, succeeded by his son Titus

Second-declension noun.

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