Menelaus

From Latin Menelāus, from Ancient Greek Μενέλαος (Menélaos).

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛn.ɪˈleɪ.əs/

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Menelaus

1. (Greek mythology) The king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, and the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War.

From Ancient Greek Μενέλᾱος (Menélāos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.nɛˈɫaː.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.neˈlaː.us]

Menelāus m sg (genitive Menelāī); second declension

1. Menelaus, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Menelaus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press