Dioscorus

• Dioscūrus

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῐόσκορος (Dĭóskoros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diˈɔs.kɔ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈɔs.ko.rus]

Dioscorus m sg (genitive Dioscorī); second declension

1. (New Latin) a male given name from Ancient Greek
   • 1587 May 17, Bernardyni Bydgoszcz. Wł., De Controversiis inter Ordinem Ecclesiasticum et Secularem in Polonia‎^[1], page 175:

     Inquissime etiam & Nestorius a Cyrillo, & a Leone Dioscorus, heretici iudicati sunt in Ephesina & Chalcedonensi Synodo, cum inter ipsos, totaque tum agitabuntur controversia versarentur

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   • 1888, Catholic Church, Breviarium romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii tridentini restitutum‎^[2], Ratisbonæ: F. Pustet, page 251:

     Quod ubi rediens Dioscorus inspexit, audita novitatis causa, adeo in filiam excanduit, ut stricto ense eam appetens parum abfuerit, quin eam dire confoderet

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   1. Dioscorus of Alexandria (Pope of Alexandria)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Dioscorus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present