Horace

  • [ HAWR-əs (English), o-RAHS (French) ]
  • English, French
English and French form of HORATIUS, and the name by which the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is commonly known those languages. In the modern era it has been used as a given name since the Renaissance, in honour of the poet.

HORATIUS   male   Ancient Roman
Roman family name which was possibly derived from Latin hora "hour, time, season", though the name may actually be of Etruscan origin. A famous bearer was Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a Roman lyric poet of the 1st century BC who is better known as Horace in the English-speaking world.
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT ROMAN: Horatius
ENGLISH: Horace, Horatio
FRENCH: Horace
ITALIAN: Orazio
PORTUGUESE: Horácio
ROMANIAN: Horațiu
SPANISH: Horacio
FEMININE FORMS
ANCIENT ROMAN: Horatia