Aulis
See also: aulis
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAulis
- (historical) An ancient port town in Boeotia, Greece, where, according to legend, the Greek fleet gathered to set off for Troy, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
Translations
editan ancient Greek port-town
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
edit19th century creation from aulis (“helpful, generous”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAulis
- a male given name
- 2009, Kirsti Ellilä, Pappia kyydissä, Karisto, →ISBN, page 9:
- Aulis hymyili ja pudisti päätään, mutta tajusin, ettei hän voisi kieltää lapsilta taloa. [ - - - ] Hän oli nimensä veroinen mies ja perheenisä: antelias, hyväsydäminen, avulias ja valmis tekemään kaikkensa perheen onnen eteen.
- Aulis smiled and shook his head, but I realized that he couldn't forbid his children from getting the house. [ - - - ] He was a man worthy of his name, a family father: generous, goodhearted, helpful and ready to do anything for his family.
Declension
editInflection of Aulis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Aulis | Aulikset | |
genitive | Auliksen | Aulisten Auliksien | |
partitive | Aulista | Auliksia | |
illative | Aulikseen | Auliksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Aulis | Aulikset | |
accusative | nom. | Aulis | Aulikset |
gen. | Auliksen | ||
genitive | Auliksen | Aulisten Auliksien | |
partitive | Aulista | Auliksia | |
inessive | Auliksessa | Auliksissa | |
elative | Auliksesta | Auliksista | |
illative | Aulikseen | Auliksiin | |
adessive | Auliksella | Auliksilla | |
ablative | Aulikselta | Auliksilta | |
allative | Aulikselle | Auliksille | |
essive | Auliksena | Auliksina | |
translative | Aulikseksi | Auliksiksi | |
abessive | Auliksetta | Auliksitta | |
instructive | — | Auliksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms
editStatistics
edit- Aulis is the 225th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,461 male individuals (and as a middle name to 8,876 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäu̯lʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäːu̯lis]
Proper noun
editAulis f sg (genitive Aulidis); third declension
- A town of Boeotiaon the Euripus, celebrated as the place from which the Grecian fleet set sail for Troy
Declension
editThird-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Aulis |
Genitive | Aulidis |
Dative | Aulidī |
Accusative | Aulidem |
Ablative | Aulide |
Vocative | Aulis |
Locative | Aulidī Aulide |
References
edit- “Aulis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Aulis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Aulis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Towns in Greece
- en:Places in Greece
- en:Ancient Greece
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑulis
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑulis/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish terms with quotations
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Greece
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