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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες (Eumenídes, “gracious ones”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Eumenides pl (plural only)
- (Greek mythology) The Erinyes.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες f pl (Eumenídes, “the gracious ones”). The literal meaning obviously doesn't correspond to their actual nature, and is used euphemistically to avoid angering them.
Pronunciation
Noun
Eumenidēs f pl (genitive Eumenidum); third declension
- (euphemistic) the Furies
9 CE,
Ovid,
The Ibis 223:
- Prōtinus Eumenidēs lāvēre palustribus undīs
- Immediately the Furies washed him in swampy waters
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “Eumenides”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Eumenides in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.