aclys

== Latin == === Alternative forms === āclis === Etymology === First attested in Virgil’s Aeneid, taken from the Ancient Greek ἀγκῠλῐ́ς (ankŭlĭ́s, “hook”, “barb”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaː.klys] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.klis] === Noun === āclys f (genitive āclydis); third declension a small javelin attached to a strap 29–19 BC, P. Vergilius Maro (aut.), J.B. Greenough (ed.), Aeneis in The Bucolics, Æneid, and Georgics of Virgil (1900), bk vii, ll. 730f.: Teretes sunt aclydes illistela, sed haec lento mos est aptare flagello. Their arms are tapered javelins, which they wear bound by a coiling thong. ― tr.: T.C. Williams, The Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse (1908), bk vii, p. 253 c. AD 83–96, Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (aut.), J.D. Duff (ed.), Punica I (1927), bk iii, ll. 362f (p. 140): Iamque Ebusus Phoenissa movet, movet Arbacus arma,aclyde vel tenui pugnax instare veruto. Now Phoenician Ebusus rises in arms; and the Arbacians, fierce fighters with the dart or slender javelin. ― tr.: ibidem, p. 141 c. AD 205–220, Nonius Marcellus (aut.), W.M. Lindsay (ed.), De Conpendiosa Doctrina libri XX (1903), vol. III, bk xix, 554 M., l. 3 (p. 889): Aclydes, iacula brevia. Aclydes [are] short javelins. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aclys. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type). ==== Related terms ==== ancylista (New Latin) === References === “aclys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “āclys (āclis)”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “āclys”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 23/2. “aclys”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin “aclys” on page 28/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)