aes

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

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English

Noun

aes

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

Anagrams

• -ase, ASE, EAS, EAs, ESA, Esa, SAE, SEA, Sea, ase, eas, esa, sea

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

Adjective

aes

1. easy

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese eles and Portuguese este..

Pronoun

aes

1. they
2. these

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Latin

Etymology

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

Cognate with English ore.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aes	aera
Genitive	aeris	aerum
Dative	aerī	aeribus
Accusative	aes	aera
Ablative	aere	aeribus
Vocative	aes	aera

Synonyms

• (copper, bronze): aerāmen

Derived terms

• aēneus
• aēnus
• aerāmen
• aerāmentum
• aerārius

• aereus
• aerifer
• aerificē
• aeripēs
• aerisonus

• aerōsus
• aerūca
• aerūgō
• aes aliēnum

Related terms

• aerāria
• aerārium
• aerūginō
• aerūginōsus

References

• 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
• aes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

âes n

1. carrion
2. bait

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: aas
• Limburgish: aos

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaes/

Noun

aes

1. plural of a