Aquiles
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Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish Aquiles, from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Proper noun
Aquiles
- a male given name from Spanish
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: A‧qui‧les
Proper noun
Aquiles m
- (Greek mythology) Achilles (a Greek hero in the Iliad)
- 1652, chapter I, in Livro segvndo da fvndação, antigvidades, & grandezas da muy inſigne Cidade de Lisboa. em que foi ganhada aos Mouros por ElRey D. Afonſo Henriquez, Lisbon: Officina Craesbeckiana, page 2:
- Conuencido Achiles com as facundas palauras que Vliſſes lhe ſoube ſignificar, o ſeguio contra vontade da mãy […]
- Achilles, convinced by the eloquent words Ulysses explained to him, followed him against his mother’s wishes
- 1889, João Manuel Pereira da Silva, Considerações sobre poesia epica e poesia dramatica [Considerations about epic poetry and dramatical poetry], Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 123:
- Partem Ulysses e o filho de Achiles do acampamento grego, e procuram Philoctetes á pedir-lhe as frexas.
- Ulysses and the son of Achilles set out from the Greek encampment, and they look for Philoctetes to request the arrows from him.
- a male given name from Greek
- 1886, “Relações com a curia romana”, in Corpo diplomatico portuguez contendo os actos e relações politicas e diplomaticas de Portugal com as diversas potencias do mundo desde o seculo XVI até os nossos dias, volume IX, Lisbon: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, page 432:
- Vio o ditto Achiles a oração de que lá vinha feita pera elle recitar mostrousse muito escandalizado não fazendo elle outra porfição senão de letras humanas […]
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aquiles m
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Aquiles”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Aquiles, from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈkiles/
- Rhymes: -iles
- Syllabification: A‧qui‧les
Proper noun
Aquiles (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃᜒᜎᜒᜐ᜔)