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Definition: Patroclus |
PatroclusNoun1. (Greek mythology) a friend of Achilles who was killed in the Trojan War; his death led Achilles to return to the fight after his quarrel with Agamemnon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Patroclus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the glory of the Father". |
Date "Patroclus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Patroclus was Achilles' best friend, son of Menoetius. In his youth, Patroclus killed his friend, Clysonymus, during an argument. He fought with the Greeks at the Trojan War and killed Sarpedon and Cebriones. When Achilles refused to fight because of his feud with Agamemnon, Patroclus donned his armor and was killed by Hector. Achilles then organized an athletic competition to honour his dead friend, which included chariot racing (won by Diomedes), boxing (won by Epeius), wrestling (a draw between Ajax and Odysseus), a foot race (won by Odysseus), a duel (a draw between Ajax and Diomedes), a discus throw (won by Polypoetes), an archery contest (won by Meriones), and a javelin throw (won by Agamemnon, unopposed). The games are described in Book 23 of the Iliad, one of the earliest references to Greek sports.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Patroclus."
Crosswords: Patroclus |
| English words defined with "Patroclus": Sarpedon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Patroclus": Sleeveless Errand. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Homer | By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are Pollux, Patroclus, Nisus, Eudamidas, Hephaestion, Pechmeja |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
patroclus | 7 |
achilles patroclus | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "Patroclus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | πάτροκλοσ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atrocluspay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: caltrops, postural, pulsator, sculptor. | |
-2 letters: caltrop, captors, carolus, copular, copulas, crustal, cupolas, curtals, locusta, oculars, oscular, parlous, patrols, portals, scopula, scrotal, surcoat, talcous, torulas, turacos, upcoast. | |
-3 letters: actors, captor, carols, carpus, cartop, castor, catsup, claros, claspt, clours, clouts, coapts, copals, copras, copula, corals, corpus, costal, costar, courts, croups, cupola, curtal, cutlas, locust, lustra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: peculators, plutocrats, portulacas, speculator. | |
+2 letters: duplicators, speculators, subtropical. | |
+3 letters: counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, plutocracies, postsurgical, proconsulate, prosecutable, supplicatory. | |
+4 letters: claustrophobe, inoperculates, overspeculate, proconsulates, prosecutorial. | |
+5 letters: campylotropous, claustrophobes, claustrophobia, claustrophobic, counterplayers, micropulsation, nonspectacular, overspeculated, overspeculates, percutaneously, pertinaciously, postcopulatory, reduplications, republications, ultraprecision. | |
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