Achilles

• Achilleus, Akhilles, Akhilleus

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

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪliːz

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.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

   • 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

     Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
     Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!

   • 1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1)‎^[1], Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:

     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.

   • 2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond‎^[2], 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.

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

• Achilles (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category: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 from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

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• IPA^(key): [ˈaxɪlɛs]

Achilles m anim (relational adjective Achillův)

1. Achilles (Ancient Greek hero)

• “Achilles”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Achilles”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• Achilleus, Akilleus, Akilles

From Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• IPA^(key): [aˈkʰiləs]

Achilles

1. Achilles

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

Borrowed from Polish Achilles.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxil.lɛs/
• Rhymes: -illɛs
• Syllabification: A‧chil‧les

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowi)

1. (uncountable, Greek mythology) 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)
2. (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “Achilles”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “Achilles”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[3]

• Achilleus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkʰɪl.leːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈkil.les]

Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Achilles

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• 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

Learned borrowing from Latin Achillēs. Doublet of Achil.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxil.lɛs/

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• Rhymes: -illɛs
• Syllabification: A‧chil‧les
• Homophone: achilles

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowy)

1. (uncountable, Greek mythology) 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)

   Synonym: Achil

2. (countable, rare) a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Achilles

• Achilles in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Achilles in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Achilles in PWN's encyclopedia

Achilles m

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Aquiles.

• Akilles

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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.