habrodiaetus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁβροδίαιτος (habrodíaitos, “living delicately, effete,”). According to Pliny the Elder, the epithet was given to the painter Parrhasius by the artist himself.

Pronunciation

Noun

habrodiaetus m (genitive habrodiaetī); second declension

  1. epithet of the painter Parrhasius
    • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.72:
      namque et cognomina usurpavit habrodiaetum se appellando aliisque versibus principem artis et eam ab se consummatam, super omnia Apollinis se radice ortum et Herculem
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Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative habrodiaetus habrodiaetī
genitive habrodiaetī habrodiaetōrum
dative habrodiaetō habrodiaetīs
accusative habrodiaetum habrodiaetōs
ablative habrodiaetō habrodiaetīs
vocative habrodiaete habrodiaetī

Alternative forms

References

  • “habrodiaetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • habrodiaetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • 1955, J.Lempriere, Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors‎[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), E.P. Dutton & Company, page 2:
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