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Latin
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄμυκος (Ámukos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Amycus m sg (genitive Amycī); second declension
- Amycus, son of Neptune and king of the Bebrycians
- centaur and son of Ophion
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 12.245-239:
- Primus Ophionides Amycus penetralia donis haud timuit spoliare suis et primus ab aede lampadibus densum rapuit funale coruscis, elatumque alte, veluti qui candida tauri rumpere sacrifica molitur colla securi
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- A Trojan individual
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 10.700-704:
- succiso volvi segnem sinit, armaque Lauso donat habere umeris et vertice figere cristas. Nec non Euanthen Phrygium Paridisque Mimanta aequalem comitemque, una quem nocte Theano in lucem genitori Amyco dedit et face praegnans
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Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Amycus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Amycus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.