Achates
English edit
Etymology edit
From the "fidus Achates" (faithful Achates) of Virgil's Aeneid, the constant companion of Aeneas in his wanderings after the fall of Troy.
Noun edit
Achates
- (archaic, poetic) A trusty comrade.
- 1871, The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review, volume 2, page 152:
- [He] established a kind of hunting colony at Tring, in Hertfordshire, where, with Colonel Charritie as his Achates, Jem Morgan as his huntsman, and "some of the Browns" to look after things, his lordship had kennels of both foxhounds and harriers […]
- 1979, William Wasserstrom, Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics, page 21:
- It was the full moon of the "Captain" of industry and his Achates, the muckraker. Pragmatism, the one force in American thought since the Spanish War, certainly did not bequeath men a deeper feeling and reverence for life, […]
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Achates
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Ἀχάτης (Akhátēs).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kʰa.teːs/, [ˈäkʰät̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ka.tes/, [ˈäːkät̪es]
Proper noun edit
Achātēs m sg (genitive Achātae); first declension
- A river in Sicily, known as the place where agates were found, now the river Dirillo
- Achates (armorbearer and friend of Aeneas)
Declension edit
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Achātēs |
Genitive | Achātae |
Dative | Achātae |
Accusative | Achātēn |
Ablative | Achātē |
Vocative | Achātē |