Nero
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Nero
- Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
- An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
- Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
- A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
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Roman Emperor from 54 to 68
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Nero (plural Neros)
- Any cruel and wicked tyrant.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr, whence Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈne.roː/, [ˈnɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.ro/, [ˈnɛːro]
Proper noun edit
Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension
- Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
- An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
- Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
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Third-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Nerō |
Genitive | Nerōnis |
Dative | Nerōnī |
Accusative | Nerōnem |
Ablative | Nerōne |
Vocative | Nerō |
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- “Nero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1026.
- “Nero”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Nero”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “Nero”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- Nero 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)
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
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Nero
- Nero (Roman emperor)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 67 (facsimile):
- […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero
- […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.
- […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero
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- Portuguese: Nero
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Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nerō.
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- Rhymes: -ɛɾu
- Hyphenation: Ne‧ro
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Nero m
- Nero (Roman emperor)
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Nero m (plural Neros)
Slovak edit
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Nero m anim (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)
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Declension of Nero
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- “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024