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

1. (Greek mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   • Template:RQ:Authorized Version

     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 anglicisation of Aonghas in Scotland and Ireland.

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)

  Ancient: Αἰνείας m (Aineías)

• Greenlandic: Æneas
• Italian: Enea (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈneː.aːs/, [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈne.as/, [eˈnɛːäs]

Proper noun

Aenēās m sg (genitive Aenēae); first declension

1. Aeneas

Declension

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

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.