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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Homeric Ἀτρεΐδης (Atreḯdēs), from Ἀτρεύς (Atreús, “Atreus”) + -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.trěː.dɛːs/ → /aˈtri.ðis/ → /aˈtri.ðis/
Proper noun
Ἀτρείδης • (Atreídēs) m (genitive Ἀτρείδου); first declension (Attic)
- a child of Atreus, an Atreid
- (in particular) Agamemnon
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “Ἀτρείδης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἀτρείδης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἀτρείδης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Ἀτρείδης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003