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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From aēnus (“copper, bronze”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
aēneus (feminine aēnea, neuter aēneum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) copper, bronze
- made of copper, made of bronze
- brazen
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “aeneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aeneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aeneus 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)
- aeneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.