aeneas

1. 1.

   a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid

   Broadermythical being

Other forms of aeneas

plural

aeneases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aeneas

What does aeneas mean?

aeneas means "a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid".

How many syllables are in aeneas?

aeneas has 3 syllables: a-e-neas. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈæniəs/.

Is aeneas a common word?

aeneas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.