Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Latin Flavius, a Roman gens name, related to flavus "golden-yellow, blond" (see blue), and probably originally meaning "yellow-haired."
Wikipedia
Flavius is a Romanian masculine given name. Notable persons with that name include:
- Flavius Băd (born 1983), Romanian football player
- Flavius Domide (born 1946), Romanian football player
- Flavius Koczi (born 1987), Romanian artistic gymnast
- Flavius Moldovan (born 1976), Romanian football player
- Flavius Stoican (born 1976), Romanian football manager
Usage examples of "flavius".
Palatine arrived just about the time Flavius Sabinus expected it would: when Narcissus had finally finished investigating the Silius conspiracy.
At the appointed hour, Flavius Sabinus walked out to the center of the atrium, his stocky brother Vespasian standing at his side.
Such a name was fully expected for a firstborn, though later they would start calling the baby Flavius to avoid the confusion of two Sabinuses in one house.
Sabinus himself added a golden amulet which little Flavius would wear until the day he grew up and donned the toga of manhood.
And it was also generous of you, Flavius Sabinus, to devote your time to the defense.
Just as the great end-of-the-year festival was getting under way, Plautia provided Sabinus with a tiny, warm Saturnalia present whom they named Flavius Clemens.
Little Flavius stared with childish fascination at the marvel, happily ignorant of the multiplied thousands of personal horrors being perpetrated by the holocaust.
April 11, Senator Flavius Scaevinus was returning to his mansion on the Esquiline.
And take fifty men and go immediately to arrest Senator Flavius Scaevinus and bring him to me.
See discussion on Flavius Clemens in the lengthy note on Chapter 32 below.
Hermann began talking German, but Flavius said that unless he talked Latin the conversation was at an end.
Hermann did not want to talk Latin, which the other chiefs did not understand, for fear of being thought a traitor, and Flavius did not want to be thought a traitor by the Romans, who did not understand German.
On the other hand Hermann wanted to make an impression on the Romans, and Flavius on the Germans.
Hermann tried to keep to German, and Flavius to Latin, but as they grew more and more heated they fell into such a dreadful mixture of both languages that, as Gennanicus wrote to me, it was as good as a comedy to hear them.
Germanicus privately detailed a captain to watch Flavius very carefully during the next battle and at the least sign of treachery to run him through.