Herodes

Learned borrowing from Latin Hērōdēs, from Ancient Greek Ἡρῴδης (Hērōídēs).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɾɔ.ðəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eˈɾɔ.ðes]

Herodes m

1. Herod

• herodià

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrodɛs]

Herodes m anim (relational adjective Herodův or Herodesův)

1. Herod

Herodes m anim (female equivalent Herodesová)

1. a male surname

• “Herodes”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

From the Ancient Greek Ἡρῴδης (Hērōídēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [heːˈroː.deːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɔː.d̪es]

Hērōdēs m sg (genitive Hērōdis); third declension

1. A freedman of Atticus.
   • 68–43 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum in M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae I: Epistulae ad Familiares (1901), ed. Louis Claude Purser, book VI, letter i, § 25:

     et heus tu! †genuarios† a Caesare per Herodem talenta Attica L extorsistis?

2. Any one of several potentates of the Herodian dynasty, who held power to varying degrees in the Herodian Kingdom of Judea and its successor states from 37 BC until circa AD 93.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Herodes.
3. Herodes Atticus (AD 101–177)

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

• Hērōdiānus
• Hērōdis diēs

• “Hērōdes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Herodes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxe.ro.des/, [ˈhe.ro.des]

Herodes

1. genitive singular of Herod

Herodes m

1. Herod (king of Israel during Biblical times)

Borrowed from Latin Hērōdēs, from Ancient Greek Ἡρώδης (Hērṓdēs).

• IPA^(key): /eˈɾodes/ [eˈɾo.ð̞es]
• Rhymes: -odes
• Syllabification: He‧ro‧des

Herodes m

1. Herod (king)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 269:

     Antiguamente las culebras andaban paradas, hasta qe la Virgen las maldijo, condenándolas a arrastrarse, por haber asustado una de ellas el borriquito en que la Madre de Dios huía con su hijo del furor de Herodes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)