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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄδμητος (Ádmētos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Admētus m sg (genitive Admētī); second declension
- (Greek mythology) A king of Pherae in Thessaly and one of the Argonauts
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Admetus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Admetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.