# Nero
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Nerō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈniːroʊ/
* Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ

### Proper noun

Nero
* Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
* An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
* Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
* A male given name from Latin, more common in fiction than in real life.
** 1963, Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC, published 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?"

#### Related terms

* Neronian

#### Translations
### Noun

Nero (plural Neros)
* Any cruel and wicked tyrant.

### Anagrams

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

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nēr (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr, whence Ancient Greek ἀνήρ (anḗr). According to Suetonius, the name was used by the Claudii family because, in the Sabine language, it meant "strong" ("fortis") and "valiant" ("strēnuus"). It is possible that the term was borrowed from Sabine nero, although the Sabine term may be fictious.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈne.roː/, [ˈnɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈne.ro/, [ˈnɛːro]

### Proper noun

Nerō m sg (genitive Nerōnis); third declension
* Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
* An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
* Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* Nerōnēus
* Nerōniānus

#### Related terms

* neriōsus

#### Descendants

* Italian: Nerone
* Sicilian: Niruni

### References

* “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 and Roman 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈnɛro/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈnɛro/

### Proper noun

Nero m pers
* a male given name

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Nero”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin Nero.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

### Proper noun

Nero
* Nero (Roman emperor)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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.

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: Nero

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nerō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ.ɾu/
* Rhymes: -ɛɾu
* Hyphenation: Ne‧ro

### Proper noun

Nero m
* Nero (Roman emperor)

### Noun

Nero m (plural Neros)
* an excessively opulent or cruel statesman

## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Latin Nero.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛrɔ/

### Proper noun

Nero m pers (genitive singular Neróna, declension pattern of chlap)
* Nero

#### Derived terms

* nero m
* nerónsky

### References

* “Nero”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025