# Lucretius

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #84,474

## Definitions
1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use in English.
2. Titus Lucretius Carus, a first-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.

## Etymology
From Latin Lucretius, name of a patrician and plebeian Roman gens, possibly from lucrum (“profit”). Many people with the given name have no doubt been named after others so named, not necessarily after the 1st-century-BC Roman poet and philosopher.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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