Atreus

From Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús).

Atreus m

1. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Buthidae – Tityrus (Atreus), certain scorpions.

• (subgenus): Scorpiones – order; Neoscorpionina – suborder; Buthidae – family; Tityinae – subfamily; Tityrus – genus

• (subgenus): Tityus (Atreus) androcottoides subgroup; Tityus crassicauda, Tityus forcipula, Tityus magnimanus, Tityus neblina, Tityus nematochirus, Tityus obscurus, Tityus rufofuscus, Tityus tirnendu, Tityus ythieri – species in subgenus

• Tityus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tityus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Tityus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.tɹi.əs/, /ˈeɪˌtɹuːs/

Atreus

1. (Greek mythology) A mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 53:

     His messenger, Argicides, to Pelops, skill'd in horse; / Pelops to Atreus, chief of men; he dying, gave it course

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 228:

     The gloom that had overshadowed the sin-stained race of Atreus is dispelled by the radiance of the glory of Athens.

• Atreid
• Atreidae

• Sauter, auster, Uretas, Auster, Sutera, sauter, Tauers, urates

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεύς (Atreús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.trɛu̯s]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.treu̯s]

Atreus m sg (genitive Atreī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Atreus (a mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Atreus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Atreus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray