Alcibiades

From Latin Alcibiadēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs).

• IPA^(key): /ˌælsəˈbaɪədiz/

Alcibiades

1. A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:

     Alcibiades was a happy union of coxcomb and conqueror; but there was in him a want of that repose, and of that superb self-reliance, which characterises the Roman.

• Alcibiades on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al.kiˈbi.a.deːs/, [äɫ̪kɪˈbiäd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al.t͡ʃiˈbi.a.des/, [äl̠ʲt͡ʃiˈbiːäd̪es]

Alcibiadēs m sg (genitive Alcibiadis); third declension

1. an Athenian general

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• In Late or Church Latin the genitive Alcibiadī did occur.

• “Alcibiades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Alcibiades in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Alcibiades”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray