Academus

Academus

1. (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux.

From Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kaˈdeː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.kaˈd̪ɛː.mus]

Acadēmus m sg (genitive Acadēmī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Academus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.