Cornelius

From Latin Cornelius.

Cornelius

1. A male given name.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 10:1-2:

     There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

   • 2014 Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 213:

     The intern will not call me 'Cornelius―(in fact, that dowdy old name isn't my actual name nor, at the present time, my nom de guerre)―but 'Dr. Hinton*―or 'sir'―will do.

• Name of early Christian saints with a medieval cult in the Low Countries. The name has remained rather rare in English.
• Cornelius has been used as an anglicization of Conchobhar in Ireland.

• feminine form: Cornelia

• inclosure, reclusion, suriclone

Possibly related to cornu (“horn”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /korˈneː.li.us/, [kɔrˈneː.li.ʊs]

Cornēlius m (genitive Cornēliī); second declension

1. An old Roman gens name.

Second declension.

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

• Cornēlĭānus

• Cornēlia

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