Achates

achates achatés English Etymology From the "fidus Achates" (faithful Achates) of Virgil's Aeneid, the constant companion of Aeneas in his wanderings after the fall of Troy. Pronunciation en /əˈkeɪtiːz/ en eɪtiz 3 Noun ? en archaic poetic A trusty comrade. en 1871 The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review 2 152 [He] established a kind of hunting colony at Tring, in Hertfordshire, where, with Colonel Charritie as his Achates, Jem Morgan as his huntsman, and "some of the Browns" to look after things, his lordship had kennels of both foxhounds and harriers en 1979 William Wasserstrom Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics 21 It was the full moon of the "Captain" of industry and his Achates, the muckraker. Pragmatism, the one force in American thought since the Spanish War, certainly did not bequeath men a deeper feeling and reverence for life, Derived terms en fidus Achates Anagrams en aacehst eschata en eponyms German Pronunciation de De-Achates.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun de noun form de Achat gen s Latin Etymology la Achātēs :der grc:Ἀχάτης + 1 Pronunciation Achātēs Proper noun Achātēs<1> la river r/Sicily, known as the place where agates were found, now the river Dirillo Achates (armorbearer and friend of Aeneas) Declension Achātēs<1> References