English

Noun

aes

1. (rare) plural of a, the name of the letter A.
   • Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, Deep-chested music. (Alfred Tennyson)

Anagrams

• ASE, EAS, eas, ESA, SAE, SEA, sea

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛz/

Adjective

aes

1. easy

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aos, early *ajos, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.

Cognate with English ore.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ae̯s/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɛs/

Noun

aes n ‎(genitive aeris); third declension

1. money, pay, fee, fare
2. copper, bronze, brass
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 8.445

     Fluit aes riuis aurique metallum, uulnificusque chalybs uasta fornace liquescit.

     Bronze and golden ore flowed in streams, and steel, that deals wounds, melted in a vast furnace.

3. payment, debt

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Synonyms

• (copper, bronze): aerāmen

Derived terms

Related terms

• aerāria
• aerārium
• aerūginō
• aerūginōsus

References

• aes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• AES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aes”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum
    
  • to incur debts: aes alienum (always in sing.) facere, contrahere
    
  • to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
  • to get into debt: incidere in aes alienum
    
  • to be in debt: aes alienum habere
    
  • to pay one's debts: aes alienum dissolvere, exsolvere
    
  • to engrave a law upon a brazen tablet: legem in aes incīdere
    
  • (ambiguous) to breathe the air: aera spiritu ducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in debt: in aere alieno esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
    
  • (ambiguous) to get out of debt: aere alieno liberari
    
  • (ambiguous) to be fined 10,000 asses: decem milibus aeris damnari
    
• aes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin