Laiades

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek [Term?], from Λάιος (Láios) + -ίδης (-ídēs). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫaːˈi.a.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [laˈiː.a.des] === Proper noun === Lāiadēs m (genitive Lāiadae); first declension A patronymic for male descendants of Laius, particularly: Oedipus (a tragic hero who ends up killing his father and marrying his mother) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). ==== Related terms ==== Lāius === References === “Laiades”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press