herois

herois

1. plural of heroi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈroː.ɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.is]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡρωΐς (hērōḯs).

hērōis f (genitive hērōidos or hērōidis); third declension

1. a demigoddess, a heroine
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 5.5:

     Edidit haec mores illis heroisin aequos,
     quis erat Eetion Icariusque pater.

     It engendered a character equal to those heroines,
     Eetion’s Andromache, and Icarius’s Penelope. (lit. for whom Eetion and Icarius were the father.)

2. (Medieval Latin) a baroness

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

¹In poetry.

• Hērōides

• Middle French: héroïde

• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "herois", 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)
• hērōis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 744/1.
• “hērōis” on pages 792–793 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

A declined form of hērōs.

hērōis m

1. genitive singular of hērōs