Critias

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κρῐτῐ́ᾱς (Krĭtĭ́ās).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Critiās m sg (genitive Critiae); first declension

  1. One of the thirty tyrants of Athens

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

singular
nominative Critiās
genitive Critiae
dative Critiae
accusative Critiān
ablative Critiā
vocative Critiā

References

  • “Critias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Critias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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