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Latin
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῐόσκορος (Dĭóskoros).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dioscūrus m sg (genitive Dioscūrī); second declension
- (New Latin) alternative form of Dioscorus
1794, Richard François Philippe Brunck, Friedrich Jacobs, Anthologia Graeca, Lipsiae In Bibliopolio Dyckio, page 326:Reperitur ibi petitum Diaconi Alexandrini, quo Dioscurus, quem Monophyfitae pro ſancto habebant, tanquam luxurioſus homo traducitur- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1938, Hubertus Jedin, Concilium Tridentinum Diariorum, Actorum, Epistolarum, Tractatuum Nova Collectio 13.1, page 43:Renato presbytero et Hilaro diacono, qui suo nomine praesiderent, cum tamen Dioscurus Alexandrinus episcopus ad approbationem Eutychiani erroris traxisset reclamantibus apostolicis praesidentibus- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
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