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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Νέαρχος (Néarkhos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nearchus m sg (genitive Nearchī); second declension
- An officer of Alexander the Great, famous for his voyage from the Indus river to the Persian gulf
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- Nearchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Nearchus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray