Aeneas

See also: aeneas

English

Alternative forms

• Æneas (archaic)
• (given name): Eneas

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Aenēās, from Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈniː.əs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Aeneas

2. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.
3. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.

Usage notes

• Used as an anglicization of Aonghas in Scotland and Ireland.

Related terms

• Aeneid

Translations

Trojan hero

• Bulgarian: Еней m (Enej)
• Catalan: Enees m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃涅阿斯 (zh) (Āiniè'āsī)

• Danish: Æneas c
• Faroese: Eneas m
• French: Énée (fr) m, Ænée m

  Middle French: Ænee m

• German: Äneas (de) m
• Greek: Αινείας (el) m (Aineías)

  Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας m (Aineías)

• Greenlandic: Æneas
• Hungarian: Aeneas
• Italian: Enea (it) m
• Latin: Aenēās (la) m
• Marathi: इनीयस (inīyas), आइनेइअस (āineias)
• Polish: Eneasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Eneias (pt) m
• Romanian: Ene
• Russian: Эне́й (ru) m (Enɛ́j)
• Slovak: Eneas m
• Spanish: Eneas (es) m
• Ukrainian: Ене́й m (Enéj)

Further reading

• Aeneas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Aenea, Enea, Aenias

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς (Aineíās, Ainéās).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯ˈneː.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈnɛː.as]

Proper noun

Aenēās m sg (genitive Aenēae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Aeneas (a Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aenēās
genitive	Aenēae
dative	Aenēae
accusative	Aenēān Aenēam
ablative	Aenēā
vocative	Aenēā

Derived terms

• Aeneadēs, Aeneadae
• Aenēānicus
• Aenēis
• Aenēius
• Aenīdēs

Descendants

• → Danish: Æneas
• → English: Aeneas
• → German: Äneas
• Italian: Enea
• Middle French: Ænee, Enee
  • French: Ænée, Énée

References

• “Aenēās” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “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.