Aulis

From Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːlɪs/, /ˈaʊlɪs/

Aulis

1. (historical) An ancient port-town in Greece, Boeotia, 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/, [ˈɑu̯lis̠]
• 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.

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• Auli
• Aulikki

• Sauli, lusia, siula, sulia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐλίς (Aulís).

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