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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἀγχίσης (Ankhísēs), via Latin Anchises.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Anchises
- A mythical Trojan elder in the Iliad and the Aeneid, father of Aeneas.
Translations
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἀγχίσης (Ankhísēs)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Anchīsēs m sg (genitive Anchīsae); first declension
- Anchises
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Anchises”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Anchises”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Anchises in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.