Nero

See also: nero and Neró

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Nerō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːroʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ

Proper noun

Nero

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
4. A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
   • 1963, Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC, published 2010, →ISBN:

     "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

Related terms

• Neronian

Translations

Roman Emperor from 54 to 68

• Bulgarian: Неро́н m (Nerón)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼祿 / 尼禄 (Nílù)

• French: Néron (fr) m

  Middle French: Neron

• German: Nero m
• Greek: Νέρων (el) (Néron)

  Ancient: Νέρων m (Nérōn)

• Irish: Nearó m

  Old Irish: Neir m

• Italian: Nerone m
• Japanese: ネロ
• Korean: 네로 (nero)
• Latin: Nerō m
• Polish: Neron (pl)
• Portuguese: Nero (pt) m
• Russian: Неро́н (ru) m (Nerón)
• Serbo-Croatian: Neron m
• Slovak: Nero m
• Spanish: Nerón (es) m
• Tagalog: Neron
• Turkish: Neron

Noun

Nero (plural Neros)

1. Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

Anagrams

• Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, oner, orné, reno, reno-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr, whence Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr). According to Suetonius, the name was used by the Claudii family because, in the Sabine language, it meant "strong" ("fortis") and "valiant" ("strēnuus"). It is possible that the term was borrowed from Sabine nero, although the Sabine term may be fictious.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈne.roː/, [ˈnɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ro/, [ˈnɛːro]

Proper noun

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Nerō
genitive	Nerōnis
dative	Nerōnī
accusative	Nerōnem
ablative	Nerōne
vocative	Nerō

Derived terms

• Nerōnēus
• Nerōniānus

Related terms

• neriōsus

Descendants

• Italian: Nerone
• Sicilian: Niruni

References

• “Nero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1026.
• “Nero”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nero”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Nero”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• "Nero", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈnɛro/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈnɛro/

Proper noun

Nero m pers

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Nero (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Nero	Neřě	Nera
genitive	Nera	Nerú	Ner
dative	Neru	Neroma	Neróm
accusative	Nero	Neřě	Nera
vocative	Nero	Neřě	Nera
locative	Neřě, Neru	Nerú	Neřiech
instrumental	Nerem	Neroma	Nery

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Nero”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

Proper noun

Nero

1. Nero (Roman emperor)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 67 (facsimile):

     […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero

     […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.

Descendants

• Portuguese: Nero

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nerō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾu/

• Rhymes: -ɛɾu
• Hyphenation: Ne‧ro

Proper noun

Nero m

1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Noun

Nero m (plural Neros)

1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛrɔ/

Proper noun

Nero m pers (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)

1. Nero

Declension

Declension of Nero

	singulare tantum
nominative	Nero
genitive	Neróna
dative	Nerónovi
accusative	Neróna
locative	Nerónovi
instrumental	Nerónom

Derived terms

• nero m
• nerónsky

References

• “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025