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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *aeznos, from earlier *ajes-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aēnus (feminine aēna, neuter aēnum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) copper, bronze
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “aenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aenus 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)
- aenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aenus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aenus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly