Damocles

• Damokles

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δαμοκλῆς (Damoklês).

Damocles

1. A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.

• Damoclean
• sword of Damocles

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• Dēmoclēs

Borrowed from Doric Greek Δᾱμοκλῆς (Dāmoklês); cognate with Attic Greek Δημοκλῆς (Dēmoklês).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.mo.kleːs/, [ˈd̪äːmɔkɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.mo.kles/, [ˈd̪äːmokles]

Dāmoclēs m sg (genitive Dāmoclis); third declension

1. Damocles
   • 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ad urbe condita 34.25:

     Dāmoclēs erat Argīvus, adulēscēns māiōris animī quam cōnsiliī, quī prīmō iūre iūrandō interpositō dē praesidiō expellendō cum idōneīs conlocūtus, dum vīrēs adicere coniūrātiōnī studet incautior fideī aestimātor fuit.

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.62.2:

     Fortūnātus sibi Dāmoclēs vidēbātur

Third-declension noun (i-stem) or first-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.

• Dāmocliānus

• “Dāmō̆cles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dāmŏclēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 466.
• Dāmoclēs in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

From Ancient Greek Δαμοκλῆς (Damoklês).

• IPA^(key): /daˈmokles/ [d̪aˈmo.kles]
• Rhymes: -okles
• Syllabification: Da‧mo‧cles

Damocles m

1. Damocles

• “Damocles”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014