"Atreus" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|Ἀτρεύς}} Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Atreus
  1. (Greek mythology) A mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia. Tags: Greek

Proper name [Latin]

IPA: [ˈa.trɛu̯s] [Classical-Latin], [ˈaː.treu̯s] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) Forms: Atreī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Atreus [nominative, singular], Atreī [genitive, singular], Atreō [dative, singular], Atreum [accusative, singular], Atreō [ablative, singular], Atree [singular, vocative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Ἀτρεύς}} Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Atreus<2>}} Atreus m sg (genitive Atreī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Atreus<2>}}
  1. (Greek mythology) Atreus (a mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia) Tags: Greek, declension-2, masculine, singular

Proper name [Translingual]

Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús). Etymology templates: {{der|mul|grc|Ἀτρεύς}} Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús) Head templates: {{head|mul|proper noun|||g=m|g2=|head=Atreus|nogendercat=1}} Atreus m
  1. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Buthidae – Tityrus (Atreus), certain scorpions. Tags: masculine Hypernyms (subgenus): Scorpiones (english: order), Neoscorpionina (english: suborder), Buthidae (english: family), Tityinae (english: subfamily), Tityrus (english: genus) Hyponyms (subgenus): Tityus androcottoides subgroup (english: Atreus), Tityus crassicauda, Tityus forcipula, Tityus magnimanus, Tityus neblina, Tityus nematochirus, Tityus obscurus, Tityus rufofuscus, Tityus tirnendu, Tityus ythieri (english: species in subgenus)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.