Nero

See also: nero and Neró

English

Etymology

From Latin Nerō, from Old Latin *nara, an archaic word meaning "man", from Proto-Italic *nēr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪəɹəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ

Proper noun

Nero

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
4. A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.

   • 1963 Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC (2010), →ISBN:

     • "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

Related terms

• Neronian

Translations

Roman Emperor from 54 to 68

• French: Néron (fr) m

  Middle French: Neron

• German: Nero m
• Greek: Νέρων (el) (Néron)

  Ancient:

• Italian: Nerone m
• Japanese: ネロ
• Korean: 네로 (nero)
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• Latin: Nerō m
• Portuguese: Nero (pt) m
• Russian: Неро́н (ru) m (Nerón)
• Serbo-Croatian: Neron m
• Slovak: Nero m
• Spanish: Nerón (es) m
• Tagalog: Neron

Noun

Nero (plural Neros)

1. Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

Anagrams

• Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, oner, orné, reno, reno-

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

Proper noun

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nerō
Genitive	Nerōnis
Dative	Nerōnī
Accusative	Nerōnem
Ablative	Nerōne
Vocative	Nerō

Derived terms

• Nerōnēus
• Nerōniānus

References

• “Nero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1026.
• “Nero”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nero”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Nero”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• Nero in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

Proper noun

Nero

1. Nero (Roman emperor)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 67 (facsimile):

     […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero

     […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.

Descendants

• Portuguese: Nero

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾu/

Proper noun

Nero m

1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Noun

Nero m (plural s)

1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛrɔ/

Proper noun

Nero m (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)

1. Nero

Declension

Declension of Nero

	singulare tantum
nominative	Nero
genitive	Neróna
dative	Nerónovi
accusative	Neróna
locative	Nerónovi
instrumental	Nerónom

Derived terms

• nero m
• nerónsky

References

• “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024