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Proper noun

Plautus

1. A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.

Related terms

• Plautine

Translations

Latin

Adjective

plautus m ‎(feminine plauta, neuter plautum); first/second declension

1. wide, broad
2. flat, level
3. broad-shouldered

Inflection

First/second declension.

References

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plautus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

• plautus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PLAUTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plautus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• plautus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plautus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray