Aulis

From Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːlɪs/, /ˈaʊlɪs/

Aulis

1. (historical) An ancient port town in Boeotia, Greece, where, according to legend, the Greek fleet gathered to set off for Troy, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.

• Laius

19th century creation from aulis (“helpful, generous”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯lis/, [ˈɑ̝u̯lis̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑulis
• Syllabification^(key): Au‧lis

Aulis

1. a male given name
   • 2009, Kirsti Ellilä, Pappia kyydissä, Karisto, →ISBN, page 9:

     Aulis hymyili ja pudisti päätään, mutta tajusin, ettei hän voisi kieltää lapsilta taloa. [ - - - ] Hän oli nimensä veroinen mies ja perheenisä: antelias, hyväsydäminen, avulias ja valmis tekemään kaikkensa perheen onnen eteen.

     Aulis smiled and shook his head, but I realized that he couldn't forbid his children from getting the house. [ - - - ] He was a man worthy of his name, a family father: generous, goodhearted, helpful and ready to do anything for his family.

• Auli
• Aulikki

• Aulis is the 225^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 2,461 male individuals (and as a middle name to 8,876 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Sauli, lusia, siula, sulia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäu̯lʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.lis/, [ˈäːu̯lis]

Aulis f sg (genitive Aulidis); third declension

1. A town of Boeotiaon the Euripus, celebrated as the place from which the Grecian fleet set sail for Troy

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

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