say it: ig-NAY-shuhs
ignatius is a noun meaning "bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)". It carries one recorded sense.
bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ignatius come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.