Polyclitus

• Polycletus, Polycleitus, Polykleitus, Polykleitos

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclītus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

• enPR: pŏl′ĭ-klī′təs, IPA^(key): /ˌpɑl.ɪˈklaɪ.təs/
• (Latinate) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑ.lɪˈkli(ː).təs/

Polyclitus

1. A male given name from Latin Polyclītus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)].
   1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Elder, 5th century BCE Ancient Greek sculptor and artist from Argos or Sicyon
   2. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Younger, 4th century BCE Ancient Greek architect

• Polycletan, Polyclitan
• Polycletean, Polyclitean

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Polycletan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 4601, column 1.
• “Polyclitus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Polyclitus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Polyclitus”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• Polyclētus, Poluclētus, Poluclītus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.lyˈkliː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.liˈkliː.t̪us]

Polyclītus m sg (genitive Polyclītī); second declension

1. Polyclitus
   1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Elder, 5th century BCE Ancient Greek sculptor and artist from Argos or Sicyon
   2. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Younger, 4th century BCE Ancient Greek architect

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Polyclitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Polyclitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1196/2.
• Polyclitus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1762