Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/kəˈdu.si.əs/ · noun
The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it..
Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.
Use caduceus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Caduceus means The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it..
Common synonyms include golden wand.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.