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Æneas

Æneas is the archaic form of Aeneas.

Meaning of Aeneas

Proper noun

Aeneas

  1. (Greek, Roman) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.
  2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
    • And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 9:33-34

Questions about Æneas

What is Æneas the archaic form of?
Æneas is the archaic form of Aeneas.

Words near Æneas in the dictionary

  1. æmulates
  2. æmulating
  3. æmulation
  4. æmulations
  5. æmulous
  6. Æneas
  7. Æneid
  8. Æneids
  9. Æneolithic
  10. æneous
  11. ænigma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Æneas (page history and authors); Aeneas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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