Aiax
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Αἴας (Aías). The noun was changed from a dental stem to a velar stem with the loss of the nasal consonant; a more logical development would have yielded *ajās with the root *ajant- (i.e. genitive *ajantis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈaj.jaːks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈaː.jaks]
Proper noun
Aiāx m sg (genitive Aiāntis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Aiāx |
| genitive | Aiācis |
| dative | Aiācī |
| accusative | Aiācem |
| ablative | Aiāce |
| vocative | Aiāx |
Descendants
References
- “Ājax, ācis, m.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ajax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.