Ascanius

From Latin Ascanius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάνιος (Askánios).

• IPA^(key): /æˈskeɪni.əs/

Ascanius

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A legendary king of Alba Longa, and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas.

• anacusis

From Ancient Greek Ἀσκάνιος (Askánios).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈka.ni.us/, [äs̠ˈkäniʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈka.ni.us/, [äsˈkäːnius]

Ascanius m sg (genitive Ascaniī or Ascanī); second declension

1. Ascanius
2. A river and lake in Bithynia, mentioned by Pliny

Second-declension noun, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “Ascanius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ascanius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ascanius”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Ascanius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray