"Traditional Latin name"
The name Crixus is commonly a male name from the "Latin" origin.
Crixus is recorded in Roman historical writing as the name of a Gaulish gladiator who led the revolt against Rome alongside Spartacus from 73 to 71 BC. He appears under this Latin form in Plutarch's Life of Crassus and in Appian's Civil Wars. The ancient sources give the name and the man's origin as a Gaul but state no meaning for the name itself, and no etymology for it is documented in the classical texts.
The pronunciation of Crixus is KRIK-sus.
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