Spurius

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Spurius ?

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Passalidae – certain beetles.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Polyphaga - suborder; Scarabaeiformia - infraorder; Scarabaeoidea - superfamily; Passalidae - family; Passalinae - subfamily; Proculini - tribe

• (genus):

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• Sp. (praenominal abbreviation)

From spurius (“of illegitimate birth”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspu.ri.us/, [ˈs̠pʊriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspu.ri.us/, [ˈspuːrius]

Spurius m (genitive Spuriī or Spurī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Second-declension noun.

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

• “Spŭrĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Spurĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,471/3.