Dioscurus

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῐόσκορος (Dĭóskoros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [di.ɔsˈkuː.rɪ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.osˈkuː.ri]

Dioscūrus m sg (genitive Dioscūrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) alternative form of Dioscorus
   • 1794, Richard François Philippe Brunck, Friedrich Jacobs, Anthologia Graeca‎^[1], Lipsiae In Bibliopolio Dyckio, page 326:

     Reperitur ibi petitum Diaconi Alexandrini, quo Dioscurus, quem Monophyfitae pro ſancto habebant, tanquam luxurioſus homo traducitur

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   • 1938, Hubertus Jedin, Concilium Tridentinum Diariorum, Actorum, Epistolarum, Tractatuum Nova Collectio 13.1‎^[2], page 43:

     Renato presbytero et Hilaro diacono, qui suo nomine praesiderent, cum tamen Dioscurus Alexandrinus episcopus ad approbationem Eutychiani erroris traxisset reclamantibus apostolicis praesidentibus

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Dioscūr-” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present