Alpheus

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Alpheus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Alpheidae – certain snapping shrimps.

References

• Alpheus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alpheus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Alpheus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Alternative forms

• Alfeios
• Alphaeus
• Alpheius

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós, literally “whitish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælˈfiːəs/
• Rhymes: -iːəs

Proper noun

Alpheus

1. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
2. (Greek mythology) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Arethusa”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 157:

     Then Alpheus bold, / On his glacier cold, / With his trident the mountains strook;

3. A male given name of historical usage.

Derived terms

• Alpheus Valley

Translations

river in Hades

• Greek: Αλφειός (el) m (Alfeiós)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀλφειός m (Alpheiós)

• Latin: Alphēus m
• Portuguese: Alfeu m
• Russian: Алфе́й (ru) m (Alféj)

god of the river Alpheus

• Greek: Αλφειός (el) m (Alfeiós)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀλφειός m (Alpheiós)

• Latin: Alphēus m
• Russian: Алфе́й (ru) m (Alféj)

male given name

• Greek: Αλφειός (el) m (Alfeiós)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀλφειός m (Alpheiós)

• Italian: Alfeo (it) m
• Latin: Alphēus m
• Polish: Alfeusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Alfeu m

Anagrams

• heals up

Latin

Alternative forms

• Alphēos
• Alphēius

View of the river

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫˈpʰeː.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈfɛː.us]

Proper noun

Alphēus m sg (genitive Alphēī); second declension

1. Alfeios (a river in Peloponnesus, Greece), which flows in the Ionian Sea in Elis

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Alphēus
genitive	Alphēī
dative	Alphēō
accusative	Alphēum
ablative	Alphēō
vocative	Alphēe

References

• “Alpheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Alpheus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Alpheius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly