herois

See also: Herois and heróis

Catalan

Noun

herois

1. plural of heroi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /heːˈroː.is/, [heːˈroːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈro.is/, [eˈrɔːis]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἡρωῐ́ς (hērōĭ́s).

Noun

hērōis f (genitive hērōidos or hērōidis); third declension

1. a demigoddess, a heroine

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

2. (Medieval Latin) a baroness

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	hērōis	hērōides hērōidēs
genitive	hērōidos hērōidis	hērōidum
dative	hērōidī	hērōidibus
accusative	hērōida hērōidem	hērōidas hērōidēs
ablative	hērōide	hērōidibus
vocative	hērōis hērōi1	hērōides hērōidēs

¹In poetry.

Derived terms

• Hērōides

Descendants

• Middle French: héroïde

References

• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hērōis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• herois 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)
• hērōis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 744/1.
• “hērōis” on pages 792–793 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

A declined form of hērōs.

Noun

hērōis m

1. genitive singular of hērōs