julius

noun

1. a male given name: a Roman family name.

noun

1. Saint,died a.d. 352, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 337–352.

noun

1. Giuliano della Rovere, 1443–1513, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503–13.

noun

1. Giammaria Ciocchi del MonteGiovanni Maria del Monte, 1487–1555, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1550–55.

noun

1. original name Guiliano della Rovere. 1443–1513, pope (1503–13). He completed the restoration of the Papal States to the Church, began the building of St Peter’s, Rome (1506), and patronized Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante

masc. proper name, from Latin Iulius, name of a Roman gens, perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios “pertaining to or descended from Jove.”