Lucretius

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
  2. 2
    Titus Lucretius Carus, a Roman poet and philosopher.

Etymology

From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”).

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