Admetus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄδμητος (Ádmētos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /adˈmeː.tus/, [äd̪ˈmeːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /adˈme.tus/, [äd̪ˈmɛːt̪us]

Proper noun

Admētus m sg (genitive Admētī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) A king of Pherae in Thessaly and one of the Argonauts

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Admētus
genitive	Admētī
dative	Admētō
accusative	Admētum
ablative	Admētō
vocative	Admēte

References

• “Admetus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Admetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.