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Hercules en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhɝːkjəliːz/ (US)
  • /ˈhɜːkjəliːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈhɜːkjʊliːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈhɝːkjʊliːz/ (US)
  • (UK) audio

Etymology

From Latin Herculēs, from Etruscan 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄 (hercle), from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), apparently cognate of Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) and, according to Haudry, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”). Doublet of Heracles.

Meanings

  1. A Hercules beetle.
  2. A man with Herculean attributes.
    • For the immaculate gentleman her cries had lured to what was to have been his death had been suddenly metamorphosed into a demon of revenge. Instead of soft muscles and a weak resistance, she was looking upon a veritable Hercules gone mad. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 28:

Forms

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Hercules Number=Plur lexicographic

Hercules en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhɝːkjəliːz/ (US)
  • /ˈhɜːkjəliːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈhɜːkjʊliːz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈhɝːkjʊliːz/ (US)
  • (UK) audio

Etymology

From Latin Herculēs, from Etruscan 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄 (hercle), from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), apparently cognate of Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) and, according to Haudry, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”). Doublet of Heracles.

Meanings

  1. (Roman) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
    • Thus he enumerates many Hercules’s, and many Mercury’s; but one part of the history of each is so much the same, that I know not how he could avoid perceiving that they were only two names of one person. 1838, L[eveson] Vernon Harcourt, The Doctrine of the Deluge; Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the Doubts Which Have Recently Been Cast upon It by Geological Speculations, volume I, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 453:
    • “[…] Diogenes turned Hercules into ridicule; and the Roman Cynic Varro introduces three hundred Joves without heads.” From the stage abuser the sarcastic African father selects, partly from his own former observation, those of Diana being flogged, the reading of Jupiter’s will after his decease, and the three half-starved Herculesses! 1884, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […], page 112:
    • The two Hercules are positioned on the same convex, bulging frame of the lower stern gallery as David, but furthest to the port (No. 397) and to the starboard (No. 1279) respectively of the centre line. 1986, Hans Soop, The Power and the Glory: The Sculptures of the Warship Wasa, Almqvist & Wiksell, →ISBN, page 43:
    • Mr. Sympſon would read Theban, the Story of Omphale being, as he thinks, only applicable to him: But as there were many Hercules'''’s, and among the reſt a Libyan, the Son of Jupiter Ammon; if it is inaccurate, it ſeems the Inaccuracy of a Scholar, and not an Error of the Preſs. 1750, The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, volume the third, London: […] J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper […], page 70:
    • […]—Hercules—Was Nimrod, the grand-son of Noah, and the origin of all the fabled Herculesses of all the early nations—[…] 1843, [Josiah Priest], Slavery, as It Relates to the Negro, or African Race, Examined in the Light of Circumstances, History and the Holy Scriptures; […], Albany, N.Y.: C. Van Benthuysen and Co., page VII:
    • […] and now was Hercules famous at Tyre: not he that we spoke of before: (for the more secret histories say there were many Hercules, and many father Libers) and this Hercules they make famous for twelve sundry rare exploits […] 1903, The City of God, page 62:
    • There were so many Hercules in the Grecian mythology and history, that it was necessary to specify when the principal Hercules, the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, was meant. 1795, Paradise Regained, a Poem, in Four Books, by John Milton. A New Edition, with Notes of Various Authors, by Charles Dunster, M.A., London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], page 258:
    • Supporters.] Two Herculeſſes, with clubs over their ſhoulders, proper, crined and habited about the middle, or. 1769, The New Peerage; or Present State of the Nobility of England: […], volume III, London: […] R. Davis, […]; L. Davis, […]; and W. Owen, […], page 227:
    • By this time, however, Maciste had lost his individuality and had become indistinguishable from the many Herculeses, Atlases, and other assorted neomythological strongmen, all played by a host of American bodybuilders. 2008, Gino Moliterno, Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts; 28), The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 188:
    • THere were many Hercules'''’s, but (as Tully ſays, de Nat. Deor. lib. 3.) the famous Actions of them all are aſcrib’d to him who was the Son of Jupiter, by Alcmena, the Wife of Amphitryo King of Thebes. 1698, The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes, in a Short, Plain and Familiar Method by Way of Dialogue, 2nd edition, London: […] Charles Harper, […], page 332:
    • THere were many Hercules'''’s amongſt the Antients; Varro enumerates Forty four. The moſt famous were, Hercules Marguſanus, Hercules Ogmius, who was the Symbol of Eloquence amongſt the Gauls; Hercules Pollens, Hercules Thebanus, firſt called Alcides, Hercules' Tyrius, or Egyptian; and there were two of them; the Elder called Melicarthus, or Eſau, the Founder of the City of Tyre; and the Younger, who Subdu’d Geryon, and was Worſhipped in Sidon in Spain. 1705, The Antient Religion of the Gentiles, and Causes of Their Errors Consider’d: […], London: […] John Nutt, […], page 166:
    • Our great cities have become so many Augean stables, for the removal of whose filth as many Hercules are required. 1848, Richard B[oxall] Grantham, A Treatise on Public Slaughter-Houses, Considered in Connection with the Sanitary Question. […], London: […] J[ohn] Weale, […]; and […] Henry Renshaw, […], page 25:
  2. A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
  3. A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
  4. (countable, rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  5. A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

Forms

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Hercules Number=Plur lexicographic
Hercules's Number=Plur obsolete lexicographic
Herculesses Number=Plur obsolete lexicographic
Herculeses Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

Melqart · Heracles

Deriveds

Gates of Hercules · Herculis · Herc · Herculean · Herculinian · Her

Holonyms

Milky Way

Hypernyms

constellation

Meronyms

Rutilicus · Rasalgethi · Maasym · Sarin · Kornephoros · Atia · Marfik · Kajam · Cujam

Relateds

Heracles · Herakles · Hercules beetle · Hercules ant

Synonyms

Hercules

Translations (74)

fr Hercule (constellation) · is Herkúles (constellation) · ca Hèrcules (constellation) · la Ingeniculatus (constellation) · es Hércules (constellation) · fr Hercule (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ga Earcail (constellation) · la Nixus (constellation) · it Ercole (constellation) · cmn 武仙座 (constellation) · gl Hércules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · cs souhvězdí Herkula (constellation) · pl Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · de Herkules (constellation) · gl Hércules (constellation) · sk Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ka ჰერკულესი (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · la Geniculator (constellation) · ro Hercule (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · sw Herkule (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · is Herkúles (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · cs Herkules (constellation) · eo Herkulo (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · la Geniculatus (constellation) · la Nixus genu (constellation) · bg Херкулес (constellation) · ru Геркулес (constellation) · km អ៊ែរគុល (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · cmn 海格立斯 (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · el Ηρακλής (constellation) · it Ercole (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · fi Herkules (constellation) · la Ingeniculus (constellation) · la Herculēs (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · la Nixus in genibus (constellation) · fa پهلوان (constellation) · es Hércules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · cs Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · fi Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · hu Hercules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · th กลุ่มดาวเฮอร์คิวลีส (constellation) · sw Hekyulizi (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · th เฮราคลีส (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · tr Herkül (constellation) · nl Hercules (constellation) · cmn 赫耳枯勒斯 (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ota هركول (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · hy Հերկուլես (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · sv Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · frm Hercule (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · iu ᐦᐄᕐᑯᓖᔅ (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · tr Herkül (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · nl Hercules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · th เฮอร์คิวลีส (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · hu Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · bg Херкулес (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ca Hèrcules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · uk Геркуле́с (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ar هِرَقْل (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · ru Геркуле́с (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · or ହର୍କ୍ୟୁଲିସ (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · mr हर्क्यूलीस (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · kl Herkulesi (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · de Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · la Hercules (constellation) · pt Hércules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · grc Ἡρακλῆς (constellation) · pl Herkules (constellation) · fa رستم (constellation) · pt Hércules (constellation) · mr हरक्युलीझ (constellation) · my တံငါတာရာ (constellation) · da Herkules (The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles) · sv Herkules (constellation)