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- Dictionaryfidus Achates/ˌfʌɪdəs əˈkeɪtiːz/
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- 1. a faithful friend or devoted follower: "accompanied by three guides and his fidus Achates, Bruce set out"
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Jun 9, 2024 · Definition. Entries Near. Show more. Save Word. fidus Achates. Latin quotation from Virgil. fi· dus Acha· tes ˌfē-du̇s-ä-ˈkä-ˌtās. : faithful Achates : trusty friend. Dictionary Entries Near fidus Achates. fiduciary relation. fidus Achates. fie. See More Nearby Entries. Cite this Entry. Style. “Fidus Achates.”
Definition of 'fidus Achates' fidus Achates in British English. (ˈfaɪdəs əˈkeɪtiːz ) noun. a faithful friend or companion. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Latin, literally: faithful Achates, the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid. A faithful friend or companion....
Fidus Achates definition: a faithful friend or companion. See examples of FIDUS ACHATES used in a sentence.
fidus Achates. ( ˈfaɪdəs əˈkeɪtiːz) n. a faithful friend or companion. [Latin, literally: faithful Achates, the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
noun. ‘You see, but you do not observe,’ he tells his dull fidus Achates; how many steps, for example, are there from the hall to the room where they are sitting? This Isaac proved the most faithful of all his comrades, and stuck to him throughout the whole journey, a regular fidus Achates.
Achates, fidus Latin phrase (‘faithful Achates’) meaning a faithful friend and follower. Achates was a companion of Aeneas, whose loyalty to his friend was so exemplary as to become proverbial. Source for information on Achates, fidus: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable dictionary.
The earliest known use of the noun fidus Achates is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for fidus Achates is from 1603, in the writing of Christopher Heydon, soldier and writer on astrology. fidus Achates is a borrowing from Latin. See etymology.
Character in mythology, faithful lieutenant of Aeneas in the Aeneid; a late source ascribes to him the killing of Protesilaus (Eustathius Ad Iliadem 2. 701).T. Weber, Fidus Achates (1988).[...]
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In the Aeneid, Achates (Ancient Greek: Ἀχάτης, "good, faithful Achates", fidus Achates as he was called) was a close friend of Aeneas; his name became a by-word for a very intimate companion. [2]
