aes

See also: AES, áes, äes, -aes, a**es, äs, and æs

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EnglishEdit

NounEdit

aes

1. (rare) plural of a, the name of the letter A.
   • Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, Deep-chested music. (Alfred Tennyson)

AnagramsEdit

• -ase, ASE, EAS, ESA, SAE, SEA, eas, sea

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BretonEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

AdjectiveEdit

aes

1. easy

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *aos, early *ajos, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.

Cognate with English ore.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯s/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɛs/

NounEdit

aes n (genitive aeris); third declension

1. money, pay, fee, fare
2. copper, bronze, brass
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.445

     Fluit aes riuis aurique metallum, uulnificusque chalybs uasta fornace liquescit.

     Bronze and golden ore flowed in streams, and steel, that deals wounds, melted in a vast furnace.

3. payment, debt

InflectionEdit

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	aes	aera
genitive	aeris	aerum
dative	aerī	aeribus
accusative	aes	aera
ablative	aere	aeribus
vocative	aes	aera

SynonymsEdit

• (copper, bronze): aerāmen

Derived termsEdit

• aēneus
• aēnus
• aerāmen
• aerāmentum
• aerārius

• aereus
• aerifer
• aerificē
• aeripēs
• aerisonus

• aerōsus
• aerūca
• aerūgō
• aes aliēnum

Related termsEdit

• aerāria
• aerārium
• aerūginō
• aerūginōsus

ReferencesEdit

• aes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “aes”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “aes” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
    
  • to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
    
  • to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
  • to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
    
  • to be in debt: aes alienum habere
    
  • to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
    
  • to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
    
  • (ambiguous) to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in debt: in aere alieno esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
    
  • (ambiguous) to get out of debt: aere alieno liberari
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fined 10,000 asses: decem milibus aeris damnari
    
• aes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Middle DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Dutch ās, from Proto-Germanic *ēsaz.

NounEdit

âes n

1. carrion
2. bait

InflectionEdit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

• Dutch: aas
• Limburgish: aos

Further readingEdit

• “aes”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “aes”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929