Achilles

English

Achilles against Agamemnon, Roman mosaic from Pompeii

Alternative forms

• Achilleus
• Akhilles
• Akhilleus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz/, /əˈkɪliz/
• IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz/

Proper noun

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
   • 2005, P. J. Heslin, The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid, Cambridge University Press, page 277,

     As we saw in the preceding chapter, Statius in the Achilleid revises the Ovidian account of Achilles′ rape of Deidamia.

   • 2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153,

     In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.

   • 2012, Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies, Oxford University Press, page 2,

     Iliad 1, in Maximus' interpretation, exemplifies a 'love contest' between an abusive and obsessive Agamemnon and a 'gentle and emotional' (ἥμερος καί ἐμπαθής) Achilles; […] .

2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
3. (astronomy) The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.

Derived terms

• Achillean
• Achilles heel
• Achilles tendon

Translations

Greek mythical hero

• Arabic: أَخِيل m (ʔaḵīl)
• Armenian: Աքիլլես (hy) (Akʻilles)

  Old Armenian: Աքիլլէս (Akʻillēs)

• Basque: Akil
• Bulgarian: Ахил (Ahil), Ахилес (Ahiles)
• Catalan: Aquil·les m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿喀琉斯 (zh) (Ākāliúsī), 阿基里斯 (zh) (Ājīlǐsī)

• Czech: Achilleus (cs) m
• Danish: Achilleus
• Dutch: Achilles (nl)
• Esperanto: Aĥilo, Akilo
• Estonian: Achilleus
• Finnish: Akhilleus (fi), Akilles (fi)
• French: Achille (fr) m
• Georgian: აქილევსი (akilevsi)
• German: Achilleus (de) m
• Greek: Αχιλλέας (el) m (Achilléas)

  Ancient: Ἀχιλλεύς m (Akhilleús)

• Greenlandic: Achilleusi
• Hebrew: אכילס (Ahils)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: Akhilleusz (hu)
• Indonesian: Achilles
• Interlingua: Achilles
• Inuktitut: ᐊᑭᓪᓕᔅ (akillis)
• Italian: Achille (it)
• Japanese: アキレス (Akiresu), アキレウス (Akireusu)
• Korean: 아킬레스 (Akilleseu)
• Latin: Achillēs (la)
• Latvian: Achilas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Akilles m

• Polish: Achilles (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: Aquiles (pt)
• Russian: Ахи́лл (ru) m (Axíll), Ахилле́с (ru) m (Axillés)
• Serbo-Croatian: Ahil (sh) m, Ahilej m
• Slovene: Ahíl (sl) m
• Spanish: Aquiles (es) m
• Swedish: Akilles (sv), Achilles (sv)
• Turkish: Aşil
• Ukrainian: Ахіллес m (Axilles)

Further reading

• Achilles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Achilles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Proper noun

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek

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Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaxɪlɛs]

Proper noun

1. Achilles (Ancient Greek hero)

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈxɪ.ləs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Achil‧les

Proper noun

Achilles m

1. Achilles

Derived terms

• achillespees

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Achilleus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰil.leːs/, [äˈkʰɪlːʲeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkil.les/, [äˈkilːes]

• audio (ecclesiastical):

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Proper noun

Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Achillēs
Genitive	Achillis
Dative	Achillī
Accusative	Achillem
Ablative	Achille
Vocative	Achillēs

Derived terms

• Achillēus
• Achillīdes

References

• “Achilles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Achilles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Achilles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Achilles in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968

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Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈxil.lɛs/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Achilles m

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

Declension

Declension of Achilles

	singular
nominative	Achilles
genitive	Achillesa
dative	Achillesowi
accusative	Achillesa
instrumental	Achillesem
locative	Achillesie
vocative	Achillesie

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Achilles m

1. Template:pt-obsolete-hellenism

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Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Achilles c (genitive Achilles)

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

Usage notes

• The classic Swedish translation of Homer's works by Erland Lagerlöf in 1912 uses this name form.