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Patronymics, indicating descent or
relationship, are formed by adding to proper names the suffixes
-
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- -adés, -idés,
-ídés, -eus, M.; -ás, -is, -éis, F.
These words, originally Greek adjectives, have almost all become nouns
in Latin: -
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- Atlás:
Atlanti-adés, Mercury; Atlant-ides (Gr. plur.), the Pleiads.
- Scípió:
Scípi-adés, son of Scipio.
- Tyndareus:
Tyndar-idés, Castor
or Pollux, son of Tyndarus; Tyndar-is, Helen, daughter of Tyndarus.
- Anchísés:
Anchísi-adés, AEneas, son of Anchises.
- Théseus:
Thés-ídés, son of Theseus.
- Týdeus:
Týd-ídés, Diomedes, son of Tydeus.
- Oíleus: Aiáx
Oíl-eus, son of Oileus.
- Cisseus: Cissé-is,
Hecuba, daughter of Cisseus.
- Thaumás:
Thaumant-iás, Iris,
daughter of Thaumas.
- Hesperus: Hesper-ides (from Hesper-is, -idis), plur., the
daughters of Hesperus, the
Hesperides.