Remus

See also: remus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Remus.

Proper noun

Remus

1. (Roman mythology) The legendary founder of Rome and the twin brother of Romulus.
2. A male given name from Latin, rare in English.

Translations

the founder of Rome

• Arabic: رِمُوس (rimūs)
• Armenian: Հռեմոս (hy) (Hṙemos)
• Catalan: Rem
• Galician: Remo (gl) m
• Georgian: რემუსი (remusi)
• German: Remus (de)
• Greek: Ρέμος (el) m (Rémos)
• Hungarian: Remus
• Italian: Remo (it)
• Japanese: レムス (Remusu)
• Latin: Remus
• Marathi: रीमस m (rīmas)
• Persian: رموس (fa) (remus)
• Portuguese: Remo m
• Russian: Рем (ru) m (Rɛm)
• Spanish: Remo (es)

male given name

• Catalan: Rem
• Italian: Remo (it)
• Romanian: Remus m

Anagrams

• semur, resum, Reums, serum, Mureș, merus, muser, Muser, murse, mures, Sumer, Esrum

Latin

Etymology

Remus' name may have originally meant “twin”, from Old Latin *jemos (“twin”), from Proto-Italic *jemos, from Proto-Indo-European *yemHós (“twin”). The initial r- was probably introduced to make the name sound more like Romulus.

Cognate with Sanskrit यम (yamá, “twin”), and related to Old Norse Ymir and Latin geminus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.mus/, [ˈrɛmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.mus/, [ˈrɛːmus]

Proper noun

Remus m sg (genitive Remī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Remus (legendary founder of Rome)
2. a Latin cognomen

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Remus
genitive	Remī
dative	Remō
accusative	Remum
ablative	Remō
vocative	Reme

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Ῥῶμος (Rhômos)
• Catalan: Rem
• English: Remus
• Italian: Remo
• Portuguese: Remo
• Romanian: Remus
• Spanish: Remo

References

• “Rĕmus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Rĕmus³ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,342/1”
• “Remus²” on page 1,614/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)