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From Latin Appius, probably a Latinized form of an Italic name Attius, from Oscan, Umbrian, or Sabine.

Appius

1. A Roman male given name from Latin, notably borne by Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician of the 4th and 3rd century BC, builder of the Appian Way

• Appian

Roman name

• Armenian: Ապպիոս (Appios)

• French: Appius (fr)

• German: Appius (de)

• Greek: Άππιος (el) (Áppios)
  Ancient: Ἄππιος (Áppios)

• Italian: Appio (it)

• Latin: Appius

• Portuguese: Ápio m

• Russian: А́ппий (Áppij)

• appuis, sipapu

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• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈap.pi.us/, [ˈäpːiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈap.pi.us/, [ˈäpːius]

Appius m (genitive Appiī or Appī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen, e.g.:
   Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician

Second-declension noun.

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

• Appiānus

Appius (feminine Appia, neuter Appium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Appian

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Appius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Appius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.