Acrisius

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀκρίσιος (Akrísios).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈkrɪ.si.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈkriː.s̬i.us]

Acrisius m sg (genitive Acrisiī or Acrisī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) a mythical king of Argos, father of Danae

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Italian: Acrisio

• “Acrisius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Acrisius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.