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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθᾰλῐ́δης (Aithalídēs).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aethalidēs m sg (variously declined, genitive Aethalidae or Aethalidis); first declension, third declension
- a male given name from Ancient Greek
- AD 70–79?, Gaius Valerius Flaccus (author), Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder and Pieter Burman the Elder (editors), Argonautica, Utrecht: Willem van de Water (second edition, 1702), book I, lines 436–440 (pages 12–13):
- Hinc numeroſa phalanx, proles Cyllenia: certus // Aethalides ſubitas nervo redeunte ſagittas // Cogere: tu medios gladio bonus ire per hoſtes, // Euryte: nec patrio Minyis ignobilis uſu, // Nuntia verba ducis populis qui reddit Echion.
- late AD 2nd C., Aulus Gellius (author), Martin Hertz and Carl Hosius (editors), Noctium Atticarum libri XX, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner (revised edition, 1903), volume I, book iv, chapter xi, § 14 (page 198, lines 4–9):
- P y t h a g o r a m vero ipsum sicuti celebre est Euphorbum primo fuisse dictasse, ita haec remotiora sunt his, quae C l e a r c h u s (FHG II 317) et D i c a e a r c h u s (FHG II 244) memoriae tradiderunt, fuisse eum postea Pyrrum, deinde Aethaliden, deinde feminam pulcra facie meretricem, cui nomen fuerat Alco.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- Æthălĭdēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 82/2.