herois

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾɔjs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eˈɾɔjs]

herois

1. plural of heroi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡρωΐς (hērōḯs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈroː.ɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.is]

hērōis f (genitive hērōidos or hērōidis); third declension

1. a demigoddess, a heroine
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 5.5:

     Edidit haec mores illis heroisin aequos,
     quis erat Eetion Icariusque pater.

     It engendered a character equal to those heroines,
     Eetion’s Andromache, and Icarius’s Penelope. (lit. for whom Eetion and Icarius were the father.)

2. (Medieval Latin) a baroness

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

¹In poetry.

• Hērōides

• Middle French: héroïde

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈroː.ɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.is]

hērōis

1. genitive singular of hērōs

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈroː.iːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.is]

hērōīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of hērōus and hērōos

hērōīs

1. dative/ablative plural of hērōus, hērōos, hērōum, and hērōon

• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "herois", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hērōis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 744/1.
• “hērōis” on pages 792–793 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)