Achillean

Meaning

1. Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
2. Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
3. Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
4. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
5. Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
6. Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
7. A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.

Etymology / origin

From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean.

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