habrodiaetus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁβροδίαιτος (habrodíaitos, “living delicately, effete,”). According to Pliny the Elder, the epithet was given to the painter Parrhasius by the artist himself.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ha.bro.diˈae̯.tus/, [häbrɔd̪iˈäe̯t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.bro.diˈe.tus/, [äbrod̪iˈɛːt̪us]

Noun

habrodiaetus m (genitive habrodiaetī); second declension

1. epithet of the painter Parrhasius
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.72:

     namque et cognomina usurpavit habrodiaetum se appellando aliisque versibus principem artis et eam ab se consummatam, super omnia Apollinis se radice ortum et Herculem

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	habrodiaetus	habrodiaetī
genitive	habrodiaetī	habrodiaetōrum
dative	habrodiaetō	habrodiaetīs
accusative	habrodiaetum	habrodiaetōs
ablative	habrodiaetō	habrodiaetīs
vocative	habrodiaete	habrodiaetī

Alternative forms

• abrodiaetus

References

• “habrodiaetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• habrodiaetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 1955, J.Lempriere, Classical Dictionary of Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors‎^[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), E.P. Dutton & Company, page 2: