Cephenes

See also: cephenes

Latin

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “L&S states that they were “so called from their king,” Cēphe͡us [from the Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús)], yet includes the entry for the demonym under its entry for cēphēnes (“apian drones”); is there some relation here? Also cf. the Ancient Greek Κηφῆνες (Kēphênes, “Persians”).”

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /keːˈpʰeː.nes/, [keːˈpʰeːnɛs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈfe.nes/, [t͡ʃeˈfɛːnes]

Proper noun

Cēphēnes m pl (genitive Cēphēnum); third declension

a people of Ethiopia
(Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Cēphēnes
genitive	Cēphēnum
dative	Cēphēnibus
accusative	Cēphēnes
ablative	Cēphēnibus
vocative	Cēphēnes

Derived terms

Cēphēnus

References

“Cēphēnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press