Atticus
name
name ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A male given name from Latin.
"... yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine."
Example
More examples"If our democracy is to work in this increasingly diverse nation, then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction — Atticus Finch — who said: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.""
Etymology
From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attĭkós). Doublet of Attic.