Virgil
See also: virgil
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editVirgil
- Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.
- Coordinate term: Horace
- (mainly US) A male given name from Latin.
- 1985, Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, Penguin, published 1990, →ISBN:
- A wedding dance at the Avon Ballroom on July 22nd for Mary Paterek and Virgil Loucks (imagine, a youth named Virgil, he must be the youngest Virgil in Minnesota, maybe the last of the Virgil line).
- A settlement in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
- A place in the United States:
- A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.
- A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.
Translations
editRoman writer
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male given name
Further reading
edit- “Virgil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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