Aethalides

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθᾰλῐ́δης (Aithalídēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈtʰa.li.deːs/, [äe̯ˈt̪ʰälʲɪd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈta.li.des/, [eˈt̪äːlid̪es]

Proper noun

Aethalidēs m sg (variously declined, genitive Aethalidae or Aethalidis); first declension, third declension

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek
   • AD 70–79?, Gaius Valerius Flaccus (author), Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder and Pieter Burman the Elder (editors), Argonautica, Utrecht: Willem van de Water (second edition, 1702), book I, lines 436–440 (pages 12–13):

     Hinc numeroſa phalanx, proles Cyllenia: certus // Aethalides ſubitas nervo redeunte ſagittas // Cogere: tu medios gladio bonus ire per hoſtes, // Euryte: nec patrio Minyis ignobilis uſu, // Nuntia verba ducis populis qui reddit Echion.

   • late AD 2nd C., Aulus Gellius (author), Martin Hertz and Carl Hosius (editors), Noctium Atticarum libri XX, Leipzig: B.G. Teubner (revised edition, 1903), volume I, book iv, chapter xi, § 14 (page 198, lines 4–9):

     P y t h a g o r a m  vero ipsum sicuti celebre est Euphorbum primo fuisse dictasse, ita haec remotiora sunt his, quae  C l e a r c h u s  (FHG II 317) et  D i c a e a r c h u s  (FHG II 244) memoriae tradiderunt, fuisse eum postea Pyrrum, deinde Aethaliden, deinde feminam pulcra facie meretricem, cui nomen fuerat Alco.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Aethalidēs
Genitive	Aethalidae Aethalidis
Dative	Aethalidae Aethalidī
Accusative	Aethalidēn Aethalidem
Ablative	Aethalidē Aethalide
Vocative	Aethalidē Aethalidēs

Descendants

• Spanish: Etálida

References

• Æthălĭdēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 82/2.