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"ALPHEUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a thousand", "learned", "chief". |
Date "ALPHEUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Alpheus (in Orlando Furioso). A magician and prophet in the army of Charlemagne, slain in sleep by Cloridano. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alpheus."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tax receipt of Alpheus Baker of Eufaula, Alabama, May, 1863. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Maj. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams, officer of the Federal Army. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Beautiful Alpheus Creek. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "ALPHEUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "ALPHEUS" is used about 9 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 (proper) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
alpheus | 9 |
alpheus williams | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Matqaion kai qwman iakwbon ton tou alfaiou kai simwna ton kaloumenon zhlwthn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mattheum et Thomam Iacobum Alphei et Simonem qui vocatur Zelotes |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þomam. and Maþeum. and Iacobum. Alfei. and simonem. se is genemned zelotes. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Filip and Bartholomew, Matheu and Thomas, James Alphei, and Symount, that is clepid Zelotes, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Mathew and Thomas Iames the sonne of Alpheus and Simon called zelotes |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was named the Zealot, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | ug si Mateo, ug si Tomas, ug si Santiago nga anak ni Alfeo, ug si Simon nga ginganlan ug Zelote, |
| Croatian | i Mateja, i Tomu, i Jakova Alfejeva, i Å imuna zvanoga Revnitelj, |
| Danish | og Matthæus og Thomas, Jakob, Alfæus's Søn, og Simon, som kaldes Zelotes, |
| Dutch | Mattheus en Thomas, Jakobus, den zoon van Alfeus, en Simon genaamd Zelotes; |
| Finnish | ja Matteuksen ja Tuomaan, ja Jaakobin, Alfeuksen pojan, ja Simonin, jota kutsuttiin Kiivailijaksi, |
| French | Matthieu; Thomas; Jacques, fils d`Alphée; Simon, appelé le zélote; |
| German | Matthäus und Thomas, Jakobus, des Alphäus Sohn, Simon genannt Zelotes, |
| Hungarian | Mátét és Tamást, Jakabot, az Alfeus fiát, és Simont, a ki Zelotesnek nevezteték, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan Matius, dan Tomas, dan Yakub, anak Alpius, dan Simon yang digelar Zelotis, |
| Italian | Matteo, Tommaso, Giacomo d'Alfeo, Simone soprannominato Zelota, |
| Latvian | Mateju un Tomu, Jçkabu, Alfeja dçlu, un Sîmani, kas saukts Centîgais, |
| Manx Gaelic | Mian as Thomase, Jamys mac Alpheus, as Simon va enmyssit Zelotes |
| Maori | Ko Matiu raua ko Tamati, ko hemi tama a Arapiu, ko Haimona e kiia nei ko Heroti, |
| Norwegian | og Matteus og Tomas og Jakob, Alfeus' sønn, og Simon, som kaltes ivreren, |
| Portuguese | Mateus e Tomé; Tiago, filho de Alfeu, e Simão, chamado Zelote; |
| Rumanian | pe Matei; pe Toma; pe Iacov, fiul lui Alfeu; pe Simon, numit Zilotul; |
| Shuar | Mateusha, Tumassha, Arpeu uchiri Jakupusha, Asump Semunsha, |
| Swedish | och Matteus och Tomas och Jakob, Alfeus' son, och Simon, som kallades ivraren; |
| Uma | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: alephs, lehuas, sulpha. | |
-2 letters: aleph, ephas, hales, hauls, heals, heaps, helps, hulas, lapse, leaps, leash, lehua, pales, pause, peals, phase, plash, pleas, plush, pules, pulse, salep, selah, sepal, shale, shape, shaul, sheal, shlep, spale. | |
-3 letters: ales, alps, apes, apse, epha, haes, hale, haps, hasp, haul, heal, heap, help, hues, hula, laps, lase, lash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sulphate. | |
+2 letters: phalluses, playhouse, spleuchan, sulphated, sulphates, unshapely, upheavals. | |
+3 letters: acephalous, houseplant, multiphase, playhouses, punishable, sepulchral, spathulate, spleuchans. | |
+4 letters: audiophiles, blasphemous, diadelphous, houseplants, hypersexual, leprechauns, patchoulies, publishable, purchasable. | |
+5 letters: ailurophiles, ailurophobes, anemophilous, exophthalmus, hyperarousal, laureateship, monadelphous, philadelphus, polyanthuses, preslaughter, prothalluses, psychosexual, purplehearts, sepulchrally, sprachgefuhl, superathlete, superhelical, superhumanly, thunderclaps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 50 48 45 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01001100 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L P H E U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0050 0048 0045 0055 0053 |
| 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)35465042395553 |
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