Atrides

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ἀτρείδης (Atreídēs), from Ἀτρεύς (Atreús) + -ίδης (-ídēs). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈtriː.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈtriː.des] === Proper noun === Atrīdēs m (genitive Atrīdae); first declension A patronymic for male descendants of Atreus, particularly: Agamemnon (son of Atreus and king of Mycenae during the Trojan War) Menelaus (son of Atreus, brother to Agamemnon, and husband to Helen) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). === References === “Atrides”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press