Admetus

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄδμητος (Ádmētos).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Admētus m sg (genitive Admētī); second declension

  1. (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.