Abas

See also: abas, abás, abās, -abas, and à bas

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄβας (Ábas).

Proper noun

Abas m (genitive Abantis); third declension

1. A personal name found in Greek and Roman mythology, famously held by:
   1. Abas (the twelfth king of Argos)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Abas	Abantēs
genitive	Abantis	Abantum
dative	Abantī	Abantibus
accusative	Abantem	Abantēs
ablative	Abante	Abantibus
vocative	Abas	Abantēs

Derived terms

• Abantēus (“pertaining to Abas”, adjective)
• Abantiadēs (“male descendant of Abas”, noun)
• Abantias (“female descendant, land of Abas”, noun)
• Abantius (“pertaining to [the land of] Abas”, adjective)

References

• “Abas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Abas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of Abae

Proper noun

Abās

1. accusative plural of Abae