Remus

Learned borrowing from Latin Remus.

Remus

1. (Roman mythology) The legendary founder of Rome and the twin brother of Romulus.
2. A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

• semur, resum, Reums, serum, Mureș, merus, muser, Muser, murse, mures, Sumer, Esrum

Remus' name may have originally meant “twin”, from Old Latin *jemos (“twin”), from Proto-Italic *jemos, from Proto-Indo-European *yemHós (“twin”). The initial r- was probably introduced to make the name sound more like Romulus.^[1]

Cognate with Sanskrit यम (yamá, “twin”), and related to Old Norse Ymir and Latin geminus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.mus]

Remus m sg (genitive Remī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Remus (legendary founder of Rome)
2. a Latin cognomen

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Rĕmus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Rĕmus³”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,342/1”
• “Remus²” on page 1,614/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)