Aeneas

See also: aeneas

English

Alternative forms

Æneas (obsolete)
(given name): Eneas

Etymology

From Latin Aeneas, from Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈniː.əs/

Proper noun

Aeneas

(Greek mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.
A male given name.

Usage notes

Used as an anglicisation of Aonghas in Scotland and Ireland.

Quotations

1611, Bible (King James Version), Acts 9:33-34:
:
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.

Related terms

Aeneid

Translations

Trojan hero

Catalan: Enees m
Danish: Æneas c
Faroese: Eneas m
French: Énée (fr) m
German: Äneas (de)
Greek: Αινείας (el) m (Aineías)
Greenlandic: Æneas
Italian: Enea (it) m

Latin: Aenēās (la) m
Polish: Eneasz (pl) m
Portuguese: Eneias (pt) m
Romanian: Ene
Russian: Эне́й (ru) m (Enɛ́j)
Slovak: Eneas m
Spanish: Eneas m

Further reading

Aeneas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈneː.aːs/

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɛˈne.as/, [ɛˈneː.as]

Proper noun

Aenēās m (genitive Aenēae); first declension

Aeneas

Inflection

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.

Case	Singular
nominative	Aenēās
genitive	Aenēae
dative	Aenēae
accusative	Aenēān Aenēam
ablative	Aenēā
vocative	Aenēā

Derived terms

Aeneadēs
Aenēis

References

Aeneas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Aeneas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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