Seleucus

From Latin Seleucus, from Ancient Greek Σέλευκος (Séleukos).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛleˈukəs/, /ˌsɛlˈjukəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈluːkəs/, /səˈljuːkəs/

Seleucus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, particularly Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σέλευκος (Séleukos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈɫɛu̯.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈlɛːu̯.kus]

Seleucus m sg (genitive Seleucī); second declension

1. the name of several kings of Syria (their ancestor, Seleucus Nicator, a general of Alexander the Great after the latter’s death founded the kingdom of the Seleucidae)

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2. the name of a mathematician and confidant of Vespasian

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3. the name of a servant of Quintus Lepta
   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 6.18:

     Simulatque accepi a Seleuco tuo litteras, statim quaesivi e Balbo per codicillos quid esset in lege.

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4. the name of a player on the cithern

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Seleucus
• ?Italian: Seleuco
• ?Portuguese: Seleuco

• “Sĕleucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sĕleucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,417/2”

• Seleucus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la