Justus

Name of several early saints, from Latin iustus (“just”), from iūs +‎ -tus.

Justus

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:23:

     And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

• Of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.

From Latin Iustus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjustus/, [ˈjus̠tus̠]
• Rhymes: -ustus
• Syllabification^(key): Jus‧tus

Justus

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Justus

• Justus is the 257^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,829 male individuals (and as a middle name to 536 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Borrowed from Latin Iustus, also used as a Latinization of Jost.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjʊstʊs/

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Justus

1. a male given name

From justus (“righteous”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯uːs.tus/, [ˈi̯uːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjus.tus/, [ˈjust̪us]

Jūstus m sg (genitive Jūstī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Papirius Justus, a Roman jurist

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Justus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Justus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray