Achilles

• Achilleus
• Akhilles
• Akhilleus

Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz/, /əˈkɪliz/
• IPA^(key): /əˈkɪliːz/

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
   • 2005, P. J. Heslin, The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid, Cambridge University Press, page 277,

     As we saw in the preceding chapter, Statius in the Achilleid revises the Ovidian account of Achilles′ rape of Deidamia.

   • 2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153,

     In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.

   • 2012, Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies, Oxford University Press, page 2,

     Iliad 1, in Maximus' interpretation, exemplifies a 'love contest' between an abusive and obsessive Agamemnon and a 'gentle and emotional' (ἥμερος καί ἐμπαθής) Achilles; […] .

2. (rare) A male given name.
3. (astronomy) The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.

• Achillean
• Achilles heel
• Achilles tendon

• Achilles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Achilles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Achilles

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles
2. a male given name

Achilles m

1. Achilles (Ancient Greek hero)

• Achilles in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Achilles in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈxɪ.ləs/

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• Hyphenation: Achil‧les

Achilles m

1. Achilles

• achillespees

• Achilleus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰil.les/, [aˈkʰɪl.lɛs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkil.les/

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Achilles m (genitive Achillis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

Third declension.

• Achillēus
• Achillīdes

• Achilles in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Achilles in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Achilles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Achilles in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968

• IPA^(key): /aˈxʲil.lɛs/

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Achilles m

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

• Achilles in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Achilles m

1. Obsolete spelling of Aquiles (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

Achilles c (genitive Achilles)

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

• The classic Swedish translation of Homer's works by Erland Lagerlöf in 1912 uses this name form.