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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
laius is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus". It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus
Greek mythology
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for laius come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.