Academus

== English == === Proper noun === Academus (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux. == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.kaˈdeː.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.kaˈdɛː.mus] === Proper noun === Acadēmus m sg (genitive Acadēmī); second declension (Greek mythology) An Athenian hero who saved Athens by preventing an invasion by Castor and Pollux. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Academus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “Academus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.