Arcas

Arcas

1. plural of Arca

• Casar, ascar, Ascra, ascar-, ACARS, Caras, sacra, SAARC, sacar

From Ancient Greek Ἀρκάς (Arkás).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.kas]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.kas]

Arcas m (genitive Arcadis); third declension

1. Arcas, a mythical son of Jupiter and Callisto; the greatest hunter and legendary eponymous king of Arcadia in Ancient Greece
2. an Arcadian; an inhabitant of the Arcadia region of the Peloponnese in Greece

Third-declension noun.

• “Arcas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Arcas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Arcas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 154.
• Arcas in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 540