Achilles
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /əˈkɪliːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪliːz
Proper noun
Achilles
- (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.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
- 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
- 1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1), Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:
- If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
- 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.
- (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- (astronomy) The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.
Derived terms
Translations
Greek mythical hero
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Further reading
Achilles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:Achilles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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Etymology
From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Proper noun
Achilles
- (Greek mythology) Achilles
- a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]
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Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Achilles m anim (related adjective Achillův)
- Achilles (Ancient Greek hero)
Declension
Declension of Achilles (sg-only hard masculine animate foreign)
Further reading
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Achilles
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Achilles m
Derived terms
- achillespees
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowi)
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (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)
- (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles
Further reading
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈkʰil.leːs/, [äˈkʰɪlːʲeːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈkil.les/, [äˈkilːes]
Proper noun
Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
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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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Achillēs. Doublet of Achil.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowy)
- (uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (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)
- Synonym: Achil
- (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Achilles | Achillesowie/Achillesi |
| genitive | Achillesa | Achillesów |
| dative | Achillesowi | Achillesom |
| accusative | Achillesa | Achillesów |
| instrumental | Achillesem | Achillesami |
| locative | Achillesie | Achillesach |
| vocative | Achillesie | Achillesowie/Achillesi |
Declension of Achilles
Derived terms
nouns
- achilles
Related terms
nouns
Further reading
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Proper noun
Achilles m
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Aquiles.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Proper noun
Achilles c (genitive Achilles)
Usage notes
- The classic Swedish translation of Homer's works by Erland Lagerlöf in 1912 uses this name form.
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