Alpheus

• Alfeios
• Alphaeus
• Alpheius

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós, literally “whitish”).

• IPA^(key): /ælˈfiːəs/
• Rhymes: -iːəs

Alpheus

1. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
2. (Greek mythology) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.
3. A male given name, of mostly historical usage.

• heals up

• Alphēos
• Alphēius

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫˈpʰeː.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [alˈfɛː.us]

Alphēus m sg (genitive Alphēī); second declension

1. Alfeios (a river in Peloponnesus, Greece), which flows in the Ionian Sea in Elis

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Alpheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Alpheus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Alpheius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly