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English
Proper noun
Academus
- (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Acadēmus m sg (genitive Acadēmī); second declension
- (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Academus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.