Nero

Borrowed from Latin Nerō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːroʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ

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Nero

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
4. A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
   • 1963, Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC, published 2010, →ISBN:

     "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

• Neronian

Nero (plural Neros)

1. Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

• Nero on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, oner, orné, reno, reno-

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr, whence Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr). According to Suetonius, the name was used by the Claudii family because, in the Sabine language, it meant "strong" ("fortis") and "valiant" ("strēnuus"). It is possible that the term was borrowed from Sabine nero, although the Sabine term may be fictitious.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛ.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛː.ro]

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Nerōnēus
• Nerōniānus

• neriōsus

• Italian: Nerone
• Sicilian: Niruni

• “Nero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1026.
• “Nero”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nero”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Nero”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• "Nero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈnɛro/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈnɛro/

Nero m pers

1. a male given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Nero”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

From Latin Nero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

Nero

1. Nero (Roman emperor)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 67 (facsimile):

     […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero

     […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.

• Portuguese: Nero

From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nerō.

• Rhymes: -ɛɾu
• Hyphenation: Ne‧ro

Nero m

1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Nero m (plural Neros)

1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman

Derived from Latin Nero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛrɔ/

Nero m pers (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)

1. Nero

• nero m
• nerónsky

• “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025