Achilles

English right|thumb|Achilles against Agamemnon, Roman mosaic from Pompeii Alternative forms en Achilleus Akhilles Akhilleus Etymology en la Achillēs, from en grc Ἀχιλλεύς. Pronunciation en /əˈkɪliːz/ RP,GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Achilles.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Achilles.wav GA en ɪliːz 3 Proper noun en 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. 1 2 Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel. 1 1 I Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful springOf woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing! en The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age. 1910 w:Friedrich Nietzsche 36 Oscar Levy William A. Haussmann 3 The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche 1 T. N. Foulis Edinburgh; London https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51356/pg51356-images.html en 2012 Richard Holway Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TiHelJASOvcC&pg=PA153&dq=%22Achilles%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjatsXn6M7hAhWYfCsKHX-XAscQ6AEI1gEwHw#v=onepage&q=%22Achilles%22&f=false 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. en en rare en male Ancient Greek. en astronomy The List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp) Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles. Derived terms en achillorrhaphy achillotomy Achilles jerk Achilles reflex Patrochilles Achilles number Achillean Achilles heel Achilles tendon Translations Greek mythical hero Albanian: sq Akil m Arabic: ar أَخِيل m Armenian: hy Աքիլլես Old Armenian: xcl Աքիլլէս Basque: eu Akil Bulgarian: bg Ахил, bg Ахилес Burmese: my အာခိလိ, my အခိလေဝ, my အာခိလျု, my အခိလေး Catalan: ca Aquil·les m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 阿喀琉斯 Ākāliúsī, cmn 阿基里斯 Ājīlǐsī Coptic: cop ⲁⲭⲓⲗⲗⲉⲩⲉ Czech: cs Achilleus m Danish: da Achilleus Dutch: nl Achilles Esperanto: eo Aĥilo, eo Akilo Estonian: et Achilleus Finnish: fi Akhilleus, fi Akilles French: fr Achille m Friulian: fur Achil Georgian: ka აქილევსი German: de Achilleus m Greek: el Αχιλλέας m Ancient Greek: grc Ἀχιλλεύς m Greenlandic: kl Achilleusi Hebrew: he אכילס Ahils Hindi: hi अकिलीज़ m Hungarian: hu Akhilleusz Indonesian: id Achilles Interlingua: ia Achilles Inuktitut: iu ᐊᑭᓪᓕᔅ Irish: ga Aichill m Italian: it Achille Japanese: ja アキレス Akiresu, ja アキレウス Akireusu Khmer: km អាឈីល Korean: ko ^아킬레스 Latin: la Achillēs Latvian: lv Achilas Macedonian: mk Ахил Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Akilles m Polish: pl Achilles m, pl Achil m Portuguese: pt Aquiles Romanian: ro Ahile m Russian: ru Ахи́лл m, ru Ахилле́с m Serbo-Croatian: sh Ahil m, sh Ahilej m Sicilian: scn Achilli m, scn Achiḍḍi m Slovene: sl Ahíl m Spanish: es Aquiles m Swedish: sv Akilles, sv Achilles Turkish: tr Aşil Ukrainian: uk Ахіллес m, uk Ахі́лл m Vietnamese: vi A-sin Further reading Achilles (disambiguation) Achilles en Mythological figures Trojan War Cebuano ceb Etymology ceb :der en:Achilles<ety:bor<la:Achilles>> 3 1 Proper noun ceb proper noun ceb Greek mythology ceb Achilles ceb male English < Ancient Greek ceb Individuals Czech Etymology cs Pronunciation Proper noun m-an Achillův en Achilles Ancient Greek hero Declension m.an.sg.foreign Further reading Danish Alternative forms da Achilleus Akilleus Akilles Etymology From da grc Ἀχιλλεύς. Pronunciation da [aˈkʰiləs] Proper noun en Achilles Dutch Etymology Borrowed from nl la Achilles, from nl grc Ἀχιλλεύς. Pronunciation nl /ˌɑˈxɪ.ləs/ nl Nl-Achilles.ogg nl 3 ɪləs nl Achil les Proper noun m en Achilles Derived terms nl achillespees Kashubian Etymology csb :bor pl:Achilles + 1 Pronunciation A.chil.les Proper noun m-pr achillesowi csb uncountable Greek mythology en Achilles 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 csb countable rare csb male Latin < Ancient Greek Achilles Further reading Achilles Achilles Latin Alternative forms la Achille͡us Etymology la Achillēs :bor grc:Ᾰ̓χῐλλεύς + 1 Pronunciation Achillēs Proper noun Achillēs/Achill<3.M> Achillis/Achillī/Achilleī la Greek mythology en Achilles la Horace Satires 2 3 193 "Cōnsule." "Cūr Aiāx, hērōs ab Achille secundus,pūtēscit, totiēns servātīs clārus Achīvīs?" "Pray, do." "Why does Ajax, a hero second only to Achilles, lie rotting, though so often he won glory by saving the Greeks?" H. Rushton Fairclough 1926 la Horace Epodi 17 14 Ūnxere mātrēs Īliae additum ferīsālitibus atque canibus homicīdam Hectorem,postquam relictīs moenibus rēx prōciditheu pervicācis ad pedēs Achilleī. la Horace Carmina 1 15 34 Īrācunda diem proferet Īliōmātrōnisque Phrygum classis Achilleī;post certās hiemēs ūret Achāicusignis Īliacās domōs. la Propertius Elegies 2 9a 13 foedāvitque comās, et tantī corpus Achillīmaximaque in parvā sustulit ossa manū she soiled her hair and in her little hand took up the body of the huge Achilles and his giant bones G. P. Goold 1990 la Ovid Ars Amatoria 1 743 At nōn Actoridēs lectum temerāvit Achillis But, you will say, the son of Actor stained not Achilles' couch J. H. Mozley, revised by G. P. Goold 1929 la Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto 3 3 43 Some editions prefer the reading "ab Achillī"Publii Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Libri VI 1727 Petrus Burmannus 822 https://books.google.com/books?id=5MJbJELU0P4C&pg=PA822 praemia nec Chīrōn ab Achillē tālia cēpit nor did Chiron receive such a reward from Achilles A. L. Wheeler, revised by G. P. Goold 1924 Declension Achillēs<3.M> Achillis/Achillī/Achilleī Achillem/Achillea/Achillēn Derived terms la achillēus Achillīdes Descendants en Achilles 1 fr Achille 1 de Achill 1 it Achille 1 es Aquiles 1 References Further reading Achillēs 1 391 67 https://publikationen.badw.de/en/thesaurus/lemmata#1235 Polish pl: thumb|Achilles Etymology pl :lbor la:Achillēs + 1 Achil Pronunciation Pl-Achilles.ogg achilles Proper noun m-pr achillesowy pl uncountable Greek mythology en Achilles 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 pl Achil pl countable rare pl male Latin < Ancient Greek Achilles Declension Achillesowie/Achillesi Derived terms pl nouns achilles Related terms pl nouns Achil Further reading 90181 pl Mythological figures Trojan War Portuguese Proper noun m Aquiles 43 11 Swedish Proper noun c sv Greek mythology sv Akilles Achilles Usage notes The classic Swedish translation of Homer's works by Erland Lagerlöf in 1912 uses this name form.