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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Καπανεύς (Kapaneús).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Capaneus m sg (genitive Capaneī); second declension
- (Greek mythology) One of the seven warriors who marched from Argos against Thebes
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Capaneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Capaneus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Capaneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.