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• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯iˈtruː.u̯i.us/, [u̯ɪˈt̪ruːu̯iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈtru.vi.us/, [viˈt̪ruːvius]

Vitrūvius m sg (genitive Vitrūviī or Vitrūvī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• Vitrūvia

• Armenian: Վիտրուվիոս (Vitruvios)

• Catalan: Vitruvi

• French: Vitruve

• German: Vitruv

• Italian: Vitruvio

• Latvian: Vitrūvijs

• Lithuanian: Vitruvijus

• Polish: Witruwiusz

• Portuguese: Vitrúvio

• Romanian: Vitruviu

• Russian: Витру́вий (Vitrúvij)

• Spanish: Vitruvio

• “Vitruvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Vitruvius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.