Peneus

• Pēnēius

View of the river in Thessaly

From Ancient Greek Πηνειός (Pēneiós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peːˈneː.us/, [peːˈneːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈne.us/, [peˈnɛːus]

Pēnēus m sg (genitive Pēnēī); second declension

1. the chief river of Thessaly, which rises in Mount Pindus and flows into the Gulf of Therma
2. A river in Elis district, Peloponnesus, Greece, which rises in Mount Erymanthus and flows into the Ionian Sea
3. (Greek myth) A river god, father of Daphne

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Peneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Peneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Peneius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly