aegides

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/ === Noun === aegides plural of aegis. 1972, William Ridgeway, The Origin of Tragedy: With Special Reference to the Greek Tragedians, chapter 2 — The Rise of Attic Tragedy, page 90: Herodotus compared the goat-skin dresses (aegides) of the Libyan women in his own day to the aegis of Athena, the only difference being that whilst the former had leathern fringes, that of the goddess had one of snakes. […] Such aegides were still worn by the Lycians serving in the host of Xerxes, who according to Herodotus were emigrants from Crete. ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:aegides. == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Regularly declined forms of aegis. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯.ɡɪ.deːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.d͡ʒi.des] ==== Noun ==== aegidēs f nominative/accusative/vocative plural of aegis === Etymology 2 === From the Ancient Greek αἰγῐ́δες (aigĭ́des), regularly declined forms of αἰγῐ́ς (aigĭ́s), whence aegis. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈae̯.ɡɪ.dɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.d͡ʒi.des] ==== Noun ==== aegides f nominative/vocative plural of aegis === References === “aegides”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers