Meanings
proper nounUrius (plural Urius)
- A rare epithet of the Roman god Jupiter.
Signia ... was celebrated for its temple of Iupiter Urius...
1898, Harry Thurston Peck, transl., Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities1 more example
It was by you that the temple of Jupiter Urius, the most ancient and the most venerated of all the temples of the barbarians, was plundered.
1891, M. Tullius Cicero, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, Against Piso
Origin
From the Latin Urius, derived from the Greek Οὔριος (Oúrios), itself derived from οὖρος (oûros, “fair wind”).
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