Nero

From Latin Nerō, from Old Latin *nara, an archaic word meaning "man"[1], from Proto-Italic *nēr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪəɹəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ

Nero

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
4. A male given name, more common in fiction than in real life.

   • 1963 Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC (2010), →ISBN:

     • "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

• Neronian

Nero (plural Neros)

1. Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

• Oren, Orne, Reno, Roen, Rone, oner, orné, reno, reno-

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Third declension.

• Nerōnēus
• Nerōniānus

• Nero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1026
• Nero in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Nero in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Nero in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• Nero in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Latin Nero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

Nero

1. Nero (Roman emperor)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 67 (facsimile):

     […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero

     […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.

• Portuguese: Nero

From Old Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾu/

Nero m

1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Nero m (plural Neros)

1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman.

From Latin Nero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛrɔ/

Nero m (genitive Neróna) declension pattern chlap

1. Nero

• nero m
• nerónsky

• Nero in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk