Nero

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See also: nero and Neró

English

Etymology

From Latin Nerō.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nero

  1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
  2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
  3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
  4. A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
    • 1963, Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC, published 2010, →ISBN:
      "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

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Translations

Noun

Nero (plural Neros)

  1. Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

References


Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr, whence Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension

  1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
  2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
  3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Nerō
Genitive Nerōnis
Dative Nerōnī
Accusative Nerōnem
Ablative Nerōne
Vocative Nerō

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Nerone
  • Sicilian: Niruni

References

  • “Nero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1026.
  • “Nero”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Nero”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “Nero”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • Nero in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)


Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nero

  1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nerō.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛɾu
  • Hyphenation: Ne‧ro

Proper noun

Nero m

  1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Noun

Nero m (plural Neros)

  1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nero m anim (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Nero

Declension

Declension of Nero
singulare tantum
nominative Nero
genitive Neróna
dative Nerónovi
accusative Neróna
locative Nerónovi
instrumental Nerónom

Derived terms

References

  • “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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