Aesacus

See also: Æsacus

English

Alternative forms

• Æsacus, Aisakos

Etymology

From Latin Aesacus, from Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːsəkəs/

Proper noun

Aesacus

1. (Greek mythology) A son of King Priam, either by the naiad Alexirrhoë or the seer Arisbe, who interpreted the dreams of Queen Hecuba when she bore Paris and who mourned the deceased daughter (either Asterope and Hesperia) of the river-god Cebren; in Ovid’s Metamorphoses transformed by Tethys (Cebren’s mother) into a diving seabird (perhaps a cormorant or Scopoli’s shearwater) when he threw himself from atop a sea-cliff in grief.

Translations

son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter

• Ancient Greek: Αἴσᾰκος m (Aísăkos)
• Belarusian: Э́сак m pers (Ésak)
• Catalan: Èsac m
• Czech: Aisakos m anim
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Aesacus m
• Esperanto: Esako
• French: Ésaque m
• German: Aisakos m
• Greek: Αίσακος (el) m (Aísakos)
• Indonesian: Aisakos
• Italian: Esaco m
• Japanese: アイサコス (Aisakosu)
• Latin: Aesacus m
• Lithuanian: Aisakas m
• Macedonian: Есак m (Esak)
• Polish: Ajsakos m pers
• Portuguese: Esaco m
• Russian: Э́сак m anim (Ésak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ајсак m

  Latin: Ajsak m

• Slovak: Aisakos m pers
• Spanish: Ésaco m
• Swedish: Aisakos c
• Ukrainian: Е́сак m pers (Ésak)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Эсак (Esak)

  Latin: Esak

Further reading

• Aesacus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, s.v. “Aesăcus”
• “Aesacus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin Aesacus, from Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos).

Proper noun

Aesacus m

1. (Greek mythology) Aesacus (son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter)

Further reading

• Aesacus on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Latin

Alternative forms

• Aesacos, Æsacos, Æsacus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἴσᾰκος (Aísăkos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.sa.kus/, [ˈäe̯s̠äkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.sa.kus/, [ˈɛːs̬äkus]

Proper noun

Aesacus m sg (genitive Aesacī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Aesacus (son of Priam who mourned Cebren’s daughter)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.762

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aesacus
genitive	Aesacī
dative	Aesacō
accusative	Aesacum
ablative	Aesacō
vocative	Aesace

Descendants

• ⇒ taxonomic name: Ornithoptera aesacus
• → Dutch: Aesacus
• → English: Aesacus

Further reading

• “Aesăcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Æsăcos ou Æsăcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 79/3.
• Aesacos u. Aesacus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 202