Aulis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Aulis
- (historical) An ancient port town in Boeotia, Greece, where, according to legend, the Greek fleet gathered to set off for Troy, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
Translations[edit]
an ancient Greek port-town
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
19th century creation from aulis (“helpful, generous”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Aulis
- a male given name
- 2009, Kirsti Ellilä, Pappia kyydissä, Karisto, →ISBN, page 9:
- Aulis hymyili ja pudisti päätään, mutta tajusin, ettei hän voisi kieltää lapsilta taloa. [ - - - ] Hän oli nimensä veroinen mies ja perheenisä: antelias, hyväsydäminen, avulias ja valmis tekemään kaikkensa perheen onnen eteen.
- Aulis smiled and shook his head, but I realized that he couldn't forbid his children from getting the house. [ - - - ] He was a man worthy of his name, a family father: generous, goodhearted, helpful and ready to do anything for his family.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Aulis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Aulis | Aulikset | ||
genitive | Auliksen | Aulisten Auliksien | ||
partitive | Aulista | Auliksia | ||
illative | Aulikseen | Auliksiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Aulis | Aulikset | ||
accusative | nom. | Aulis | Aulikset | |
gen. | Auliksen | |||
genitive | Auliksen | Aulisten Auliksien | ||
partitive | Aulista | Auliksia | ||
inessive | Auliksessa | Auliksissa | ||
elative | Auliksesta | Auliksista | ||
illative | Aulikseen | Auliksiin | ||
adessive | Auliksella | Auliksilla | ||
ablative | Aulikselta | Auliksilta | ||
allative | Aulikselle | Auliksille | ||
essive | Auliksena | Auliksina | ||
translative | Aulikseksi | Auliksiksi | ||
abessive | Auliksetta | Auliksitta | ||
instructive | — | Auliksin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms[edit]
Statistics[edit]
- Aulis is the 225th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,461 male individuals (and as a middle name to 8,876 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäu̯lʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäːu̯lis]
Proper noun[edit]
Aulis f sg (genitive Aulidis); third declension
- A town of Boeotiaon the Euripus, celebrated as the place from which the Grecian fleet set sail for Troy
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Aulis |
Genitive | Aulidis |
Dative | Aulidī |
Accusative | Aulidem |
Ablative | Aulide |
Vocative | Aulis |
Locative | Aulidī Aulide |
References[edit]
- “Aulis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Aulis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Aulis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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- en:Towns in Greece
- en:Places in Greece
- en:Ancient Greece
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑulis
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑulis/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish vastaus-type nominals
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