Achilles

• Achilleus, Akhilles, Akhilleus

Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪliːz

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

   • 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
     Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!

   • 1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1)‎^[1], Edinburgh; London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:

     If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.

   • 2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond‎^[2], Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153:

     In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.

2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
3. (astronomy) The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.

• Achilles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Achilles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles
2. a male given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

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• IPA^(key): [ˈaxɪlɛs]

Achilles m anim (relational adjective Achillův)

1. Achilles (Ancient Greek hero)

• “Achilles”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Achilles”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• Achilleus, Akilleus, Akilles

From Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• IPA^(key): [aˈkʰiləs]

Achilles

1. Achilles

Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈxɪ.ləs/

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• Hyphenation: Achil‧les

Achilles m

1. Achilles

• achillespees

Borrowed from Polish Achilles.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxil.lɛs/
• Rhymes: -illɛs
• Syllabification: A‧chil‧les

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowi)

1. (uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)
2. (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “Achilles”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “Achilles”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]

• Achille͡us

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓χῐλλεύς (Ăkhĭlleús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkʰɪl.leːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈkil.les]

Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis or Achillī or Achilleī); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles
   • c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 2) 2.3.193:

     "Cōnsule." "Cūr Aiāx, hērōs ab Achille secundus,
     pūtēscit, totiēns servātīs clārus Achīvīs?"

     • 1926 translation by H. Rushton Fairclough

       "Pray, do." "Why does Ajax, a hero second only to Achilles, lie rotting, though so often he won glory by saving the Greeks?"

   • c. 30 BCE, Horace, Epodes 17.14:

     Ūnxere mātrēs Īliae additum ferīs
     ālitibus atque canibus homicīdam Hectorem,
     postquam relictīs moenibus rēx prōcidit
     heu pervicācis ad pedēs Achilleī.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 1.15.34:

     Īrācunda diem proferet Īliō
     mātrōnisque Phrygum classis Achilleī;
     post certās hiemēs ūret Achāicus
     ignis Īliacās domōs.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegies 2.9a.13:

     foedāvitque comās, et tantī corpus Achillī
     maximaque in parvā sustulit ossa manū

     • 1990 translation by G. P. Goold

       she soiled her hair and in her little hand took up the body of the huge Achilles and his giant bones

   • 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 1.743:

     At nōn Actoridēs lectum temerāvit Achillis

     • 1929 translation by J. H. Mozley, revised by G. P. Goold

       But, you will say, the son of Actor stained not Achilles' couch

   • 12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea 3.3.43, (Some editions prefer the reading "ab Achillī"^[1]):

     praemia nec Chīrōn ab Achillē tālia cēpit

     • 1924 translation by A. L. Wheeler, revised by G. P. Goold

       nor did Chiron receive such a reward from Achilles

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• → English: Achilles
• → French: Achille
• → German: Achill
• → Italian: Achille

• “Achillēs” in volume 1, column 391, line 67 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “Achilles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Achilles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Achilles”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Achilles in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968

Learned borrowing from Latin Achillēs. Doublet of Achil.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxil.lɛs/

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• Rhymes: -illɛs
• Syllabification: A‧chil‧les
• Homophone: achilles

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowy)

1. (uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)

   Synonym: Achil

2. (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles

• Achilles in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Achilles in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Achilles in PWN's encyclopedia

Achilles m

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Aquiles

Achilles c (genitive Achilles)

1. (Greek mythology) alternative spelling of Akilles (“Achilles”)

The classic Swedish translation of Homer's works by Erland Lagerlöf in 1912 uses this name form.