aes

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪz/

Noun

aes

1. (rare) plural of a, the name of the letter A.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Epic

     Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, Deep-chested music.

   • 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:

     These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.

Anagrams

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

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Bislama

Etymology

From English ice.

Noun

aes

1. ice

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

Adjective

aes

1. easy

Antonyms

• diaes

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese eles and Portuguese este..

Pronoun

aes

1. they
2. these

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ēs (medieval)

Etymology

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

Cognate with English ore.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯s/, [äe̯s̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /es/, [ɛs]

Noun

aes n (genitive aeris); third declension

1. money, pay, fee, fare
2. copper, bronze, brass

   alicuius ex aere imago ― the bronze statue of someone

   • 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

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

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
• (copper): cuprum

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• 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
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

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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
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “aes”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Scots

Alternative forms

• es, aze

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse eisa (“glowing embers”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es/, /eːz/

Noun

aes (plural aeses)

1. (Shetland) blazing fire

References

• “aes, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaes/ [ˈa.es]
• Rhymes: -aes
• Hyphenation: a‧es

Noun

aes

1. plural of a