FromLatinAlcibiadēs, fromAncient GreekἈλκιβιάδης(Alkibiádēs).
Alcibiades
- A transliteration of the Ancient Greek malegiven nameἈλκιβιάδης(Alkibiádēs), notably borne byAlcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
1837,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon],Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,pages36–37:Alcibiades was a happy union of coxcomb and conqueror; but there was in him a want of that repose, and of that superb self-reliance, which characterises the Roman.
Borrowed fromAncient GreekἈλκιβιάδης(Alkibiádēs).
Alcibiadēs m sg (genitiveAlcibiadis);third declension
- anAtheniangeneral
Third-declension noun, singular only.
- In Late or Church Latin the genitiveAlcibiadī did occur.
- “Alcibiades”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Alcibiades”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Alcibiades”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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