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Alfeios

Alfeios is the alternative spelling of Alpheus.

Meaning of Alpheus

Proper noun

Alpheus

  1. (Greek) A river in Hades.
  2. (Greek) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.
    • Then Alpheus bold, / On his glacier cold, / With his trident the mountains strook;1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Arethusa”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published...
  3. A male given name of historical usage.

Words formed from Alfeios

Questions about Alfeios

What is Alfeios the alternative spelling of?
Alfeios is the alternative spelling of Alpheus.

Words near Alfeios in the dictionary

  1. Alfaros
  2. alfas
  3. alfatoxin
  4. alfaxalone
  5. alfaxane
  6. Alfeios
  7. Alfeios Valley
  8. alfenide
  9. alfentanil
  10. alfentanyl
  11. alfereces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Alfeios (page history and authors); Alpheus (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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