English

Proper noun

Aurelius

1. A male given name; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.
   • 1992 Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief, Arrow Books, ISBN 9780099471394, page 169:

     Would the name Marcus Aurelius have meant anything to him? In all probability, he would have thought it a fancy name for a black slave.

Related terms

• Aurelia
• Aurelian
• Aurelie

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From aurum ‎(“gold”).

Proper noun

Aurēlius m ‎(genitive Aurēliī); second declension

1. Name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Related terms

• Aurelia

References

• Aurelius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Aurelius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.