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Definition: Aeneid |
AeneidNoun1. An epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Aeneid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Aeneid |
| English words defined with "Aeneid": Aeneas ♦ Eneid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Aeneid": Bolt from the Blue ♦ Pelorus ♦ Quos Ego ♦ Sinon ♦ VIRGIL. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
The Aeneid is one of a small group of writings from Latin Literature that was required for students of Latin. Traditionally students, after reading the works of Julius Caesar, Cicero, Ovid and Catullus would then read the Aeneid. As a result, many phrases from this poem entered the Latin language much as passages from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope have entered the English language. One example is from Aeneas' reaction to the painting of the Sack of Troy, sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt -- "the actions of mankind move us to tears and touch our heart" (Aeneid I, 462).
Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into an epic poem of twelve books, in conscious imitation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Virgil's poem tells the adventures of Aeneas from his escape from Troy after its sack, his wanderings through the Mediterranean region, and his final arrival in Italy where he becomes the ancestor of the Roman people. The most famous episode of this work is when he is driven by a storn to the coast of Africa, where he meets Dido, queen of Carthage, they fall in love, but the Roman gods insist he fulfill his destiny and he departs. Her heart broken, Dido commits suicide. Aeneas descends to the underworld through an opening at Cumae, where he speaks with his father Anchises and has a prophetic vision of the destiny of Rome. He marries Lavinia, the daughter of the king of the Latini, and her rejected suitor Turnus, king of the Rutuli, challenges Aeneas to a duel in which Turnus is slain.
Virgil's portrait of Aeneas emphasizes the Roman quality of pietas, or to devotion his parents, the gods in general and to the destiny of Rome. This is borne out in the famous scene where he leaves the shattered city of Troy carrying his father on his back, with his son and his household gods in hand.
The work was written at a time of major change in Rome, both political and social. In reaction the Emperor was trying to re-introduce traditional Roman moral values and the Aeneid is thought to be reflecting that aim.
On his death, Virgil left instructions for the Aeneid to be destroyed if he died with his work unfinished. On his death in 19 BC, the emperor Augustus ordered his literary executor Varius Rufus to disregard the poet's wishes, and after minor modifications the Aeneid was published.
See also Roman mythology, Greek mythology
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| "Aeneid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Aeneid" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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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 |
aeneid | 130 |
aeneid summary | 23 |
aeneid of virgil | 13 |
translation for aeneid | 9 |
aeneid virgils | 9 |
aeneid line numbers | 8 |
cliff note the aeneid | 5 |
vergils aeneid | 5 |
aeneid theme | 5 |
vergil aeneid | 3 |
aeneid character | 2 |
aeneid fate | 2 |
aeneid before he profession virgils wrote | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Aeneid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 伊尼伊德 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | eneide. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aeneiday eneida. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Aeneid" (pronounced '[AE]*ne"id'): Antacid, Arid, Avid, Biacid, Calid, Diacid, Druid, Eneid, Evanid, fetid, florid, Fracid, frigid, gelid, gravid, Herbid, Hexacid, Hydracid, Impavid, insipid, Intercarotid, intrepid, Lepid, livid, Madid, monacid, Monte-acid, naid, Nitid, Nonacid, Overrigid, Oxacid, Oxid, Oxyacid, Pavid, Pentacid, Placid, Polyacid, Pyroacid, Rabid, rigid, sapid, Semiacid, Semifluid, semisolid, Sipid, solid, spermatozoid, Spumid, squalid, stolid, subacid, Subrigid, Subtepid, Sulphacid, Sursolid, Sylphid, Tabid, tepid, Tetracid, timid, trepid, Triacid, Tupaiid, valid, Vapid, Virid, vivid. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aedine. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n" | |
-1 letter: diene. | |
-2 letters: aide, dean, dene, deni, dine, eide, idea, need, nide. | |
-3 letters: aid, ain, and, ane, ani, dee, den, die, din, end, nae, nee. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, an, de, ed, en, id, in, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n" | |
+1 letter: adenine, aliened, aniseed, delaine. | |
+2 letters: adeeming, adenines, agenized, andesite, aniseeds, antiweed, arsenide, audience, dateline, deadline, decennia, defiance, delaines, dementia, deniable, detained, detainee, detainer, deviance, echidnae, endemial, enfilade, enneadic, entailed, examined, headline, inweaved, kidnapee, lineated, nearside, oedipean, regained, reinvade, remained, renailed, retained, unideaed. | |
+3 letters: accidence, adenosine, adventive, alienated, alimented, amnestied, andesites, ardencies, arsenides, audiences, bedsoniae, beheading, bepainted, breadline, butadiene, cadencies, celandine, datelined, datelines, deadening, deadlines, deafening, deaminase, deaminate, deaneries, debeaking, deceasing, decennial, defeating, defiances, definable, defleaing, deleading, deleaving, delineate, demeaning, demential, dementias, denigrate, depainted, deraigned, designate, destained, detainees, detainers, detrained, deviances, disengage, enchained, endearing, enfiladed, enfilades, engrailed, engrained, enokidake, ensilaged, entrained, envisaged, euclidean, evanished, explained, gaberdine, geminated, gesneriad, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, headiness, headlined, headliner, headlines, herniated, impaneled, impedance, increased, inearthed, intreated, irredenta, javelined, kidnapees, kidnappee, macedoine, madeleine, madrilene, melanized, menadione, nearsides, negatived, penalised, penalized, pertained, pinheaded, readiness, realigned, refrained, reinvaded, reinvades, remainder, repainted, rereading, resinated, retrained, tailender, tetanised, tetanized, toenailed, unreadier, unwearied, vinegared. | |
+4 letters: accidences, acidnesses, adenitises, adenosines, adrenaline, adrenergic, adulterine, adventives, advisement, anteceding, antependia, appendices, appendixes, aridnesses, ascendible, avidnesses, banistered, beheadings, besteading, breadlines, butadienes, cadaverine, celandines, centigrade, chandelier, credential, deaconries, deadenings, deadliness, deaerating, deaeration, deaminases, deaminated, deaminates, decenaries, decennials, declinable, decreasing, defecating, defecation, definienda, degreasing, dehumanize, delaminate, delegating, delegation, delineated, delineates, delineator, denazified, denazifies, denegation, denigrated, denigrates, denominate, denotative, deracinate, derailment, desalinate, desalinize, designated, designates, desistance, detainment, detonative, deviancies, dewatering, diageneses, diagenesis, diagenetic, diakineses, dilettante, dinnerware, disengaged, disengages, dishearten, dreaminess, dreariness, eliminated, emendating, emendation, endarchies, endogamies, endometria, endothecia, endothelia, enokidakes, enravished, enunciated, euthanized, evidential, federating, federation, festinated, firefanged, gaberdines, garnisheed, germanized, germinated, gesneriads, grandniece, grenadiers, grenadines, headliners, heulandite, hibernated, impanelled, impedances, inadequate, inbreathed, incandesce, indelicate, inebriated, ineducable, ingathered, innervated, insheathed, integrated, intendance, interacted, interfaced, intergrade, interlaced, interplead, irredentas, itinerated, jardiniere, kidnappees, linearised, linearized, macedoines, madeleines, madrilenes, magnetised, magnetized, maidenhead, malingered, manifested, meandering, mechanized, mediagenic, medicament, menadiones, minaudiere, mislearned, mujahideen, myelinated, negotiated, nematicide, nematocide, orientated, paedogenic, pedantries, pedestrian, pedimental, planetwide, pretrained, reacceding, reanimated, reanointed, reassigned, reattained, redreaming, reexamined, refinanced, reimagined, reinflated, reinstated, remainders, renegading, reobtained, reordained, repleading, rereadings, restrained, retreading, ringleader, serenading, steadiness, straitened, tailenders, terminated, unachieved, undeniable, unexamined, unmediated, unreadiest, unrealized, unsteadied, unsteadier, unsteadies, ventilated, verdancies, vernalized, vivandiere, wardenries. | |
+5 letters: abecedarian, abridgement, accessioned, acetanilide, acridnesses, adjacencies, adrenalines, adrenalized, advisements, affectioned, alexandrine, alexandrite, antependium, appertained, apprenticed, ascertained, bawdinesses, bedarkening, bedeafening, bediapering, bemaddening, bespreading, binucleated, breadwinner, cadaverines, caffeinated, calendering, centralised, centralized, chandeliers, chandleries, channelized, cinematized, clandestine, considerate, credentials, dailinesses, deadeningly, deadheading, deaerations, deafeningly, decadencies, decarbonize, decennially, deceptional, defecations, deferential, defibrinate, definientia, dehumanized, dehumanizes, delaminated, delaminates, delectation, delegations, delineating, delineation, delineative, delineators, deliverance, deliveryman, demagnetize, denegations, denervating, denervation, denigrative, denominated, denominates, denticulate, deprecating, deprecation, depredating, depredation, deracinated, deracinates, derailments, desalinated, desalinates, desalinized, desalinizes, desecrating, desecration, designative, desipramine, desistances, desperation, detainments, detasseling, determinacy, determinant, determinate, detestation, detrainment, detrimental, deuterating, deuteration, diencephala, differentia, dilettantes, dinnerwares, disablement, disagreeing, discernable, disentailed, disentangle, disheartens, dispensable, disseminate, dundrearies, edutainment, emancipated, emendations, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, endemically, endometrial, endothelial, ensanguined, entertained, eternalized, ethionamide, eudaemonism, eudaemonist, evangelized, evidentiary, federations, fraternized, freeloading, gaudinesses, gelatinized, gendarmerie, generalised, generalized, geniculated, gingerbread, grandnieces, grecianized, greenmailed, handinesses, harbingered, hardinesses, harebrained, headinesses, heathenized, hendiadyses, heparinized, heulandites, impedimenta, impregnated, inadvertent, incandesced, incandesces, incinerated, indefinable, inseminated, intendances, intenerated, interallied, interdealer, interdental, intergraded, intergrades, interlapped, interlarded, interleaved, interplayed, interpleads, interspaced, interweaved, ironhearted, jardinieres, keratinized, kindhearted, lamebrained, lavendering, legendarily, legerdemain, lionhearted, maidenheads, manifestoed, medevacking, medicaments, medicinable, mendacities, merchandise, merchandize, minaudieres, mineralised, mineralized, misdemeanor, nearsighted, nematicides, nematocides, neutralised, neutralized, nonadhesive, overtrained, pedestaling, pedestrians, pentamidine, pentlandite, philandered, philanderer, potentiated, preassigned, predicament, predominate, prefinanced, preordained, rabidnesses, rapidnesses, readinesses, reappointed, reascending, recanalized, redefeating, redemanding, reeducating, reeducation, refashioned, rehardening, rehumanized, reimplanted, reinhabited, reinitiated, reinstalled, remaindered, remediating, remediation, renominated, reorganized, reprimanded, residential, respreading, rethreading, ringleaders, sandinesses, secondaries, sedimentary, sensualized, shadinesses, staidnesses, streamlined, tardinesses, tearstained, threadiness, tragedienne, unalienated, undecidable, undedicated, undefinable, underactive, undereating, undesirable, unendearing, unexplained, unliberated, unmedicated, unreadiness, unreclaimed, unsteadiest, unweariedly, vapidnesses, veratridine, vivandieres, windbreaker, zemindaries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 65 6E 65 69 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . -. . .. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01101110 01100101 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e n e i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 006E 0065 0069 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357180717570 |
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