Neptunus

Neptunus (nominative singular)
Neptunukset (nominative plural)
Neptunus (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunukset (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunukset (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunuksen (genitive singular)
Neptunusten (genitive plural)
Neptunuksien (genitive plural)
Neptunusta (partitive singular)
Neptunuksia (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessa (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissa (inessive plural)
Neptunuksesta (elative singular)
Neptunuksista (elative plural)
Neptunukseen (illative singular)
Neptunuksiin (illative plural)
Neptunuksella (adessive singular)
Neptunuksilla (adessive plural)
Neptunukselta (ablative singular)
Neptunuksilta (ablative plural)
Neptunukselle (allative singular)
Neptunuksille (allative plural)
Neptunuksena (essive singular)
Neptunuksina (essive plural)
Neptunukseksi (singular translative)
Neptunuksiksi (plural translative)
Neptunuksetta (abessive singular)
Neptunuksitta (abessive plural)
Neptunuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Neptunukseni (nominative singular)
Neptunukseni (nominative plural)
Neptunukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunukseni (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunukseni (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunukseni (genitive singular)
Neptunusteni (genitive plural)
Neptunuksieni (genitive plural)
Neptunustani (partitive singular)
Neptunuksiani (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessani (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissani (inessive plural)
Neptunuksestani (elative singular)
Neptunuksistani (elative plural)
Neptunukseeni (illative singular)
Neptunuksiini (illative plural)
Neptunuksellani (adessive singular)
Neptunuksillani (adessive plural)
Neptunukseltani (ablative singular)
Neptunuksiltani (ablative plural)
Neptunukselleni (allative singular)
Neptunuksilleni (allative plural)
Neptunuksenani (essive singular)
Neptunuksinani (essive plural)
Neptunuksekseni (singular translative)
Neptunuksikseni (plural translative)
Neptunuksettani (abessive singular)
Neptunuksittani (abessive plural)
Neptunuksineni (comitative plural)
Neptunuksesi (nominative singular)
Neptunuksesi (nominative plural)
Neptunuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunuksesi (genitive singular)
Neptunustesi (genitive plural)
Neptunuksiesi (genitive plural)
Neptunustasi (partitive singular)
Neptunuksiasi (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessasi (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissasi (inessive plural)
Neptunuksestasi (elative singular)
Neptunuksistasi (elative plural)
Neptunukseesi (illative singular)
Neptunuksiisi (illative plural)
Neptunuksellasi (adessive singular)
Neptunuksillasi (adessive plural)
Neptunukseltasi (ablative singular)
Neptunuksiltasi (ablative plural)
Neptunuksellesi (allative singular)
Neptunuksillesi (allative plural)
Neptunuksenasi (essive singular)
Neptunuksinasi (essive plural)
Neptunukseksesi (singular translative)
Neptunuksiksesi (plural translative)
Neptunuksettasi (abessive singular)
Neptunuksittasi (abessive plural)
Neptunuksinesi (comitative plural)
Neptunuksemme (nominative singular)
Neptunuksemme (nominative plural)
Neptunuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunuksemme (genitive singular)
Neptunustemme (genitive plural)
Neptunuksiemme (genitive plural)
Neptunustamme (partitive singular)
Neptunuksiamme (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessamme (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissamme (inessive plural)
Neptunuksestamme (elative singular)
Neptunuksistamme (elative plural)
Neptunukseemme (illative singular)
Neptunuksiimme (illative plural)
Neptunuksellamme (adessive singular)
Neptunuksillamme (adessive plural)
Neptunukseltamme (ablative singular)
Neptunuksiltamme (ablative plural)
Neptunuksellemme (allative singular)
Neptunuksillemme (allative plural)
Neptunuksenamme (essive singular)
Neptunuksinamme (essive plural)
Neptunukseksemme (singular translative)
Neptunuksiksemme (plural translative)
Neptunuksettamme (abessive singular)
Neptunuksittamme (abessive plural)
Neptunuksinemme (comitative plural)
Neptunuksenne (nominative singular)
Neptunuksenne (nominative plural)
Neptunuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunuksenne (genitive singular)
Neptunustenne (genitive plural)
Neptunuksienne (genitive plural)
Neptunustanne (partitive singular)
Neptunuksianne (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessanne (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissanne (inessive plural)
Neptunuksestanne (elative singular)
Neptunuksistanne (elative plural)
Neptunukseenne (illative singular)
Neptunuksiinne (illative plural)
Neptunuksellanne (adessive singular)
Neptunuksillanne (adessive plural)
Neptunukseltanne (ablative singular)
Neptunuksiltanne (ablative plural)
Neptunuksellenne (allative singular)
Neptunuksillenne (allative plural)
Neptunuksenanne (essive singular)
Neptunuksinanne (essive plural)
Neptunukseksenne (singular translative)
Neptunuksiksenne (plural translative)
Neptunuksettanne (abessive singular)
Neptunuksittanne (abessive plural)
Neptunuksinenne (comitative plural)
Neptunuksensa (nominative singular)
Neptunuksensa (nominative plural)
Neptunuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Neptunuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Neptunuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Neptunuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Neptunuksensa (genitive singular)
Neptunustensa (genitive plural)
Neptunuksiensa (genitive plural)
Neptunustaan (partitive singular)
Neptunustansa (partitive singular)
Neptunuksiaan (partitive plural)
Neptunuksiansa (partitive plural)
Neptunuksessaan (inessive singular)
Neptunuksessansa (inessive singular)
Neptunuksissaan (inessive plural)
Neptunuksissansa (inessive plural)
Neptunuksestaan (elative singular)
Neptunuksestansa (elative singular)
Neptunuksistaan (elative plural)
Neptunuksistansa (elative plural)
Neptunukseensa (illative singular)
Neptunuksiinsa (illative plural)
Neptunuksellaan (adessive singular)
Neptunuksellansa (adessive singular)
Neptunuksillaan (adessive plural)
Neptunuksillansa (adessive plural)
Neptunukseltaan (ablative singular)
Neptunukseltansa (ablative singular)
Neptunuksiltaan (ablative plural)
Neptunuksiltansa (ablative plural)
Neptunukselleen (allative singular)
Neptunuksellensa (allative singular)
Neptunuksilleen (allative plural)
Neptunuksillensa (allative plural)
Neptunuksenaan (essive singular)
Neptunuksenansa (essive singular)
Neptunuksinaan (essive plural)
Neptunuksinansa (essive plural)
Neptunuksekseen (singular translative)
Neptunukseksensa (singular translative)
Neptunuksikseen (plural translative)
Neptunuksiksensa (plural translative)
Neptunuksettaan (abessive singular)
Neptunuksettansa (abessive singular)
Neptunuksittaan (abessive plural)
Neptunuksittansa (abessive plural)
Neptunuksineen (comitative plural)
Neptunuksinensa (comitative plural)


Neptunus

la-proper noun

Neptūnus m (genitive Neptūnī); second declension

Neptūnus (canonical masculine)
Neptūnī (genitive)
Neptūnus (nominative singular)
Neptūnī (nominative plural)
Neptūnī (genitive singular)
Neptūnōrum (genitive plural)
Neptūnō (dative singular)
Neptūnīs (dative plural)
Neptūnum (accusative singular)
Neptūnōs (accusative plural)
Neptūnō (ablative singular)
Neptūnīs (ablative plural)
Neptūne (singular vocative)
Neptūnī (plural vocative)

q

Old French: netun (“marine monster”), nuiton (alteration through confusion with nuit, "night")

Middle French: luiton (alteration through confusion with luire, "to glow")

French: lutin (alteration of luiton), nuton (regional, Ardennes françaises), luiton (regional, Dauphiné)

Walloon: nûton

→ Catalan: Neptú

→ French: Neptune

→ Galician: Neptuno

→ Italian: Nettuno

→ Portuguese: Neptuno

→ Romanian: Neptun

→ Spanish: Neptuno

Probably from Proto-Italic *neptūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud, moisture, mist”), but this is disputed; see Neptune.

der

(Roman mythology) Neptune (god of the sea)


Neptunus

English: Neptune

(mythology) The Roman god governing the sea; Neptune.


гений

ru-noun+

ге́ний • (génij) m anim or m inan (genitive ге́ния, nominative plural ге́нии, genitive plural ге́ниев)

ге́ний (canonical)
génij (romanization)
ге́ния (genitive)
ге́нии (nominative plural)
ге́ниев (genitive plural)
ге́ний (nominative singular)
ге́нии (nominative plural)
ге́ния (genitive singular)
ге́ниев (genitive plural)
ге́нию (dative singular)
ге́ниям (dative plural)
ге́ния (accusative animate singular)
ге́ниев (accusative animate plural)
ге́ний (accusative inanimate singular)
ге́нии (accusative inanimate plural)
ге́нием (instrumental singular)
ге́ниями (instrumental plural)
ге́нии (prepositional singular)
ге́ниях (plural prepositional)

→ Yakut: гений (geniy)

First attested 1763. Borrowed from German Genius or directly from Latin genius. Displaced the earlier form гениуш, which was borrowed from Polish.

(animate, Roman mythology) genius, tutelary deity


Late Latin

As with English, Latin also has historical periods. These are broken into Early Latin (240–70BC); the Golden Age (70BC–AD14); the Silver Age (AD14–130); Late Latin (2nd–6th century); and then Medieval Latin or Low Latin (6th–15th centuries). ]

[ 2007, elizabeth solopova, stuart d. lee, Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, section 2 Old English, sub-section (b) Anglo-Latin Writing

The form of the Latin language used between the 2nd/3rd and 6th centuries.


вече

ве́че • (véče) n inan (genitive ве́ча, nominative plural ве́ча, genitive plural веч or ве́чей)

ве́че (canonical)
véče (romanization)
ве́ча (genitive)
ве́ча (nominative plural)
веч (genitive plural)
ве́чей (genitive plural)
ве́че (nominative singular)
ве́ча (nominative plural)
ве́ча (genitive singular)
ве́ч (genitive plural)
ве́чей (genitive irregular plural)
ве́чу (dative singular)
ве́чам (dative plural)
ве́че (accusative singular)
ве́ча (accusative plural)
ве́чем (instrumental singular)
ве́чами (instrumental plural)
ве́че (prepositional singular)
ве́чах (plural prepositional)
вѣ́че (alternative)

Inherited from Old East Slavic вѣче (věče), from Proto-Slavic *věťe.

inh+

(historical, politics) veche (a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries).


eudemonia

eudemonia (nominative singular)
eudemonii (genitive singular)
eudemonii (dative singular)
eudemonię (accusative singular)
eudemonią (instrumental singular)
eudemonii (locative singular)
eudemonio (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία (eudaimonía).

lbor

(Ancient Greece, philosophy) Alternative form of eudajmonia


Makedonien

de-proper noun

Makedonien n (proper noun, strong, genitive Makedoniens)

Makedoniens (genitive)
Macedonien (alternative)
Mazedonien (alternative)

Macedonia (ancient Greek kingdom; region of northern Greece; modern geographical region)


Pleiad

(Greek mythology) Any one of the Pleiades.


spartan

spartan (indefinite nominative singular)
spartans (genitive indefinite singular)
spartanen (definite nominative singular)
spartanens (definite genitive singular)
spartaner (indefinite nominative plural)
spartaners (genitive indefinite plural)
spartanerna (definite nominative plural)
spartanernas (definite genitive plural)

From Latin spartanus, equivalent to Sparta + -an.

Spartan, inhabitant of the ancient Greek town of Sparta


sceat

sceats (plural)
sceatt (alternative)
sceatta (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.

lbor

1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page,
In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling.

The Obolus and the Scruple appear to have been equally familiar to the Anglo-Saxons under the names of the older sceat and penny. The Kentishmen seem to have resembled the Franks in their coinage as well as in their Wergilds, for their scilling weighed 20 sceats; and as the scilling was only a corruption of the Roman sicilicus (the shekel), or quarter-ounce weight, the Kentish ounce must have contained 80 sceats or 40 pence; in other words it was the old Salic solidus of 40 scruples, often met with in later times under the name of mancus, or heavier ounce of 30 Carlovingian (or sterling), and 40 Merovingian pence, or scruples.

1862, Eben William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, Edmonston and Douglas, page 347:

(numismatics, historical) A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).


oread

From Latin Orēas, Orēadis, from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).

The imprisoned ringlets are emancipated; 'fresh as the oread from the forest fountain,' you descend—you breathe the incense of the chocolate—not more I hope—and grow conversational and confidential over the green tea, which, with a fragrance beyond all the violets of April, rises to your lip, 'giving and taking odours.'

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 92:

(Greek mythology) A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.


triumvirate

From Latin triumvīrātus, from triumvirī (“triumvirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).

An official group of three people, especially a ruling council of three men and particularly (historical) two such councils in Roman history.


Sisyphus

Indeed, I have looked upon the fable of Sisyphus as an allegory, and that his wife was the stone which so perpetually rolled back upon his hands, effectually retarding his weary progress up-hill.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Proposal of Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 132:

(Greek mythology) Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.


Sisyphus

de-proper noun

Sisyphus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sisyphus)

Sisyphus (genitive)
Sisyphos (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin Sīsyphus, from Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).


serdar

serdar (nominative singular)
serdarzy (nominative plural)
serdary (derogatory nominative plural)
serdara (genitive singular)
serdarów (genitive plural)
serdarowi (dative singular)
serdarom (dative plural)
serdara (accusative singular)
serdarów (accusative plural)
serdarem (instrumental singular)
serdarami (instrumental plural)
serdarze (locative singular)
serdarach (locative plural)
serdarze (singular vocative)
serdarzy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سردار (serdâr), from Persian سردار (sardâr).

bor+

Sardar (title of Persian origin used for military or political leaders in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan)


nebris

From Latin nebris, from Ancient Greek νεβρίς (nebrís), earlier νεβρός (nebrós, “fawn”).

(Greek mythology) The skin of a fawn, as worn by Dionysus, and as worn in his honor by his male followers and female followers (maenads) and other votaries in Ancient Greece. It has also been shown as a panther or fox skin in different contexts.


Brigid

/ˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɪd/

From Irish Brighid, from Old Irish Brigit, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī (“high, exalted”).

der

The pagan Brigid was part of the Tuatha Dé Danann – a race of dieties who are said to have inhabited Ireland before the Milesians, from whom today’s Irish people are descended. Raised among druids, Brigid was the daughter of an enslaved woman and the Dagda, chief of the gods.

2024 February 5, Katy Hessel, “Move over Saint Patrick: why the world should be celebrating beer-brewing Brigid”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Irish mythology) The goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and the patron goddess of the Druids. Daughter of Dagda of the Tuatha Dé Danann.


Dagda

The Middle Irish name Dagda means “Good God” or “Shining God”, from Old Irish Dagdae, from Proto-Celtic *Dago-deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰagʰo- (“shining”) (< *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”)) + *deywós (“divinity”).

Raised among druids, Brigid was the daughter of an enslaved woman and the Dagda, chief of the gods.

(Irish mythology) An important god in Irish mythology, portrayed as a father figure, king, and druid.


Dagda

From Old Irish Dagdae, from Proto-Celtic *Dago-deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn; hot”) + *deywós (“divinity”).

inh

(Irish mythology) An important god in Irish mythology.


Classical Latin

The Latin language as spoken and written in formal speeches, literature, the arts, etc., by the ancient Romans.

لَاتِينِيَّة كْلَاسِيكِيَّة

Latin language as spoken and written formally


aedile

aediles (plural)
ædile (alternative)
edile (alternative)

From Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”).

bor

Some of these encroachments may have received permission from the town council or the local aediles. A handful of painted notices found on the outside of the Amphitheatre suggest that it was the aediles who authorised the street vendors plying their trade underneath the monument’s arches, and assigned their pitches: ‘By permission of the aediles. Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say.

2010, Mary Beard, chapter 2, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:

(historical, Ancient Rome) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.


calends

Calends (alternative)
calend (alternative)
kalends (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-calends.wav

From Middle English calendes, calendas, calendis, kalandes, kalendas, kalendes, kalendez, kalendis, kalendus (also in the singular forms calende, kalend, kalende), from Latin kalendās, accusative plural of kalendae (“first day of a Roman month”), an archaic variant of calandae, from calandus (“which is to be called or announced solemnly”), the future passive participle of calō (“to call, announce solemnly”) (referring to the Roman practice of proclaiming the first days of the lunar month upon seeing the first signs of a new crescent moon), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). Although the singular form calend (now obsolete, rare) appeared in English (and compare Old English calend, kalendus (“calends; a month”)), no singular form was used in Latin as recurring days of the calendar were always referred to in the plural.
Sense 2 (“a day for settling debts and other accounts”) refers to the Roman practice of fixing the calends as the day for debts to be paid.

nb...

Containing an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Diversions, Religious Rites, Philosophy, Festivals, Oracles, Laws, Arts, Engines of War, Weights, Measures, Money, Medals, Computation and Division of Time, Chronological Terms, Heresies in the Primitive Church, &c. &c.

Often with initial capital: the first day of a month.

(historical, Ancient Rome) The first day of a month of the Roman calendar.


Sylvia

Feminine form of a Medieval form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.

(Roman mythology) Short for Princess Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.


Silvius

From Latin Silvius, from silva (“forest”).

(Roman mythology) The son of Ascanius and his wife.


helot

From Latin Hīlōta, from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes), possibly from ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai, “to be captured, to be made prisoner”) or from Ἕλος (Hélos, “Elos”), a Laconian town.

[…] when one of their kings dies, not only the Spartans, but a certain number of the country people from every part of Laconia are forced, whether they will or no, to attend the funeral. So these persons and the helots, and likewise the Spartans themselves, flock together to the number of several thousands, men and women intermingled; and all of them smite their foreheads violently, and weep and wall without stint, saying always that their last king was the best.

1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:

(historical, Ancient Greece) A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs.


helot

helot (indefinite nominative singular)
helots (genitive indefinite singular)
heloten (definite nominative singular)
helotens (definite genitive singular)
heloter (indefinite nominative plural)
heloters (genitive indefinite plural)
heloterna (definite nominative plural)
heloternas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes).


Mithraic

From Mithras + -ic. First attested in English circa 1678. More at Mithras.

[T]hat the Druids deliberately adopted Mithraic, Serapic or other exotic rituals is, to me, unthinkable.

1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page xii. 249:


Uathach

(Irish mythology) The daughter of Scáthach and later the lover of Cúchulainn (after a duel with Cochar Crufe).


Cethern

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, an Ulster warrior (son of Fintan) who assists Cúchulainn in the Táin Bó Cúailnge.


Táin Bó Cúailnge

(Irish mythology) The central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Táin Bó Cúailnge

Táin Bó Cúailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge#English


Cú Roí

The first element is apparently cú (“hound”); the second probably means "battlefield", making the whole term "hound of the battlefield".

(Irish mythology) A king of Munster and sorcerer who was killed by Cúchulainn and avenged by his son, Lugaid mac Con Roí, who was subsequently killed by Conall the Victorious.


Cú Roí

Con Roí (genitive)
Cú Roí
Chú Roí
Cú Roí

Cú Roí (character in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology)


Dáire mac Fiachna

(Irish mythology) An Ulster cattle-lord and owner of Donn Cuailnge.


Clymene

(Greek mythology) A nymph married to Iapetus, mother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius and Atlas.


Flidais

(Irish mythology) A woodland goddess whose chariot is drawn by deer.


Mesgegra

Mes Gegra (alternative)
Mes Gedra (alternative)

Conall the Victorious
Conall the Victorious

(Irish mythology) The king of Leinster during the events of the Ulster Cycle. He was killed by Conall the Victorious.


Mórrígan

the Mórrígan (canonical)
Morrígan (alternative)
Morrigu (alternative)

From Irish Mór-Ríoghain ("great queen"), from Middle Irish Morrígan.

(Irish mythology) An Irish mythological figure widely considered to be a goddess, and usually interpreted as a triple goddess.


Macha

(Irish mythology) The wife of Nemed. She died only twelve days after arriving in Ireland.


Donn Cuailnge

(Irish mythology) The Brown Bull of Cooley: an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the Táin Bó Cúailnge was fought.


Liberal Democrat

en-noun

Liberal Democrat (plural Liberal Democrats)

(Australian politics, UK politics) a member of the Liberal Democrats political party


Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
Social Democratic Party (UK)

From the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democrats.

(UK politics) A centrist political party


Hyperborea

From Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), i.e. ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”).

(Greek mythology) the land of sunshine and plenty, beyond the northern wind, home to the hyperboreans, a race of giants

Hyperborea

The mythical land of sunshine and plenty


drachm

drachms (plural)
dram (alternative)
drachme (alternative)
dram (alternative)

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French dragme (modern French drachme), from Late Latin dragma. Doublet of dirham.

(obsolete, numismatics) Alternative form of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma.


Cassandra

From Ancient Greek Κασσάνδρα (Kassándra).

And so when Cassandra foretold the evils that were to come upon Troy, even her own people would not credit her words.

1897, Michael Clarke, The Story of Troy, page 30:

(Greek mythology) A prophetess who was daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba. She captured the eye of Apollo and was granted the ability to see the future; however, she was destined never to be believed.


Ottoman Empire

/ˈɒtəmən ˈɛmpaɪə/

/ˈɑtəmən ˈɛmpaɪɹ/

Ottoman, from Middle French Ottoman, from post-classical Latin Ottomanus, from Ottoman Turkish عثمان (osman), from Arabic personal name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān) + Empire. As Osman is the Turkish spelling of that male Arabic given name ʿUṯmān, the Ottoman Empire is sometimes referred to as the Osman Empire, Osmanic Empire, or Osmanian Empire. Over the centuries the Ottoman Empire existed, it was commonly referred to as Turkey.

Under their fluctuating rule an Ottoman Empire was indeed to survive, with varying fortunes, for a further three and a half centuries. But it was an empire in the continual throes of a decline which, despite periods of respite and glimpses of momentary recovery, was to prove irreversible.

1979, Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries: the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire, page 616:

It does not seem very convincing to view a major world empire, with the most modern arms at its disposal, as merely the helpless victim of circumstances beyond its control. Even less attractive are "stage theories," which assume that at a given point in time the Ottoman Empire, its economy included, passed from the stage of "florescence" into that of "decay."

1997, Suraıya Faroqhı, Bruce McGowan, Donald Quataert, Şevket Pamuk, with Halil İnalcık as editor, An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire: Volume Two, 1600-1914, page 470

Most of the textbooks consider the period of Murad III (1574-1595) and particularly the murder of the Grand Vizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha in 1579 as the beginning of the internal decay of the Ottoman Empire. The debacle of Vienna in 1683 the following defeats in the hands of the Holy League and the subsequent Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 are mostly dealt with in a relatively detailed way, [...]

2001, Selçuk Akşin Somel, The modernization of public education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908, page 198:

This was a factor in one of the major long-term weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, namely the relatively small size of its Turkish population, which limited its ability to colonize conquered regions. [...] In no meaningful sense was Anatolia the empire's metropolis. This might seem strange to Europeans, who are and always were much inclined to use the words Ottoman and Turkish interchangeably when describing the empire.

2002, Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals, page 130:

(historical) A large Turkish empire which began as a Turkish sultanate centered in modern Turkey; founded in the late 13th century, it lasted until the end of World War I.


bakchoi

From Ancient Greek βάκχοι (bákkhoi), from Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

(Ancient Greece) In the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the 22-kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.


Caesarian

From Caesar + -ian, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.

(British) Alternative spelling of Caesarean.


Lebor Gabála Érenn

The title translates as The Book of the Taking of Ireland.

(Irish mythology) A loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of an Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages.


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Auster

For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.

1714 June 10, [Alexander Pope], The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332:

(Roman mythology) The god of the south wind.


Cimmerian

/sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/

From the Latin Cimmerius, from Ancient Greek Κιμμέριος (Kimmérios, “pertaining to the Cimmerii”) + -an.

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The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands
With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun
Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,

1791, Homer, translated by William Cowper, The Odyssey of Homer:

On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of men," and the Cimmerians, "covered with darkness and cloud," where "baleful night is spread over timid mortals."

1900, Jack London, The Shrinkage of the Planet:

(Greek mythology) Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.

Κιμμέριος

any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness


florin

From Middle English florin, floren, from Old French florin, from Italian fiorino (“little flower”). Doublet of fiorino.

Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.

ֆլորին

any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy

A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.


Chimaera

la-proper noun

Chimaera f sg (genitive Chimaerae); first declension

Chimaerae (genitive)
Chimaera (nominative singular)
Chimaerae (genitive singular)
Chimaerae (dative singular)
Chimaeram (accusative singular)
Chimaerā (ablative singular)
Chimaera (singular vocative)

[kʰɪˈmäe̯rä]

From Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing Lycian monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”).


hiisi

hiisi (nominative singular)
hiidet (nominative plural)
hiisi (accusative nominative singular)
hiidet (accusative nominative plural)
hiiden (accusative genitive singular)
hiidet (accusative genitive plural)
hiiden (genitive singular)
hiisien (genitive plural)
hiitten (genitive plural rare)
hiittä (partitive singular)
hiisiä (partitive plural)
hiidessä (inessive singular)
hiisissä (inessive plural)
hiidestä (elative singular)
hiisistä (elative plural)
hiiteen (illative singular)
hiisiin (illative plural)
hiidellä (adessive singular)
hiisillä (adessive plural)
hiideltä (ablative singular)
hiisiltä (ablative plural)
hiidelle (allative singular)
hiisille (allative plural)
hiitenä (essive singular)
hiisinä (essive plural)
hiideksi (singular translative)
hiisiksi (plural translative)
hiidettä (abessive singular)
hiisittä (abessive plural)
hiisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hiiteni (nominative singular)
hiiteni (nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative nominative singular)
hiiteni (accusative nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative genitive singular)
hiiteni (accusative genitive plural)
hiiteni (genitive singular)
hiisieni (genitive plural)
hiitteni (genitive plural rare)
hiittäni (partitive singular)
hiisiäni (partitive plural)
hiidessäni (inessive singular)
hiisissäni (inessive plural)
hiidestäni (elative singular)
hiisistäni (elative plural)
hiiteeni (illative singular)
hiisiini (illative plural)
hiidelläni (adessive singular)
hiisilläni (adessive plural)
hiideltäni (ablative singular)
hiisiltäni (ablative plural)
hiidelleni (allative singular)
hiisilleni (allative plural)
hiitenäni (essive singular)
hiisinäni (essive plural)
hiidekseni (singular translative)
hiisikseni (plural translative)
hiidettäni (abessive singular)
hiisittäni (abessive plural)
hiisineni (comitative plural)
hiitesi (nominative singular)
hiitesi (nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative nominative singular)
hiitesi (accusative nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative genitive singular)
hiitesi (accusative genitive plural)
hiitesi (genitive singular)
hiisiesi (genitive plural)
hiittesi (genitive plural rare)
hiittäsi (partitive singular)
hiisiäsi (partitive plural)
hiidessäsi (inessive singular)
hiisissäsi (inessive plural)
hiidestäsi (elative singular)
hiisistäsi (elative plural)
hiiteesi (illative singular)
hiisiisi (illative plural)
hiidelläsi (adessive singular)
hiisilläsi (adessive plural)
hiideltäsi (ablative singular)
hiisiltäsi (ablative plural)
hiidellesi (allative singular)
hiisillesi (allative plural)
hiitenäsi (essive singular)
hiisinäsi (essive plural)
hiideksesi (singular translative)
hiisiksesi (plural translative)
hiidettäsi (abessive singular)
hiisittäsi (abessive plural)
hiisinesi (comitative plural)
hiitemme (nominative singular)
hiitemme (nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative nominative singular)
hiitemme (accusative nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative genitive singular)
hiitemme (accusative genitive plural)
hiitemme (genitive singular)
hiisiemme (genitive plural)
hiittemme (genitive plural rare)
hiittämme (partitive singular)
hiisiämme (partitive plural)
hiidessämme (inessive singular)
hiisissämme (inessive plural)
hiidestämme (elative singular)
hiisistämme (elative plural)
hiiteemme (illative singular)
hiisiimme (illative plural)
hiidellämme (adessive singular)
hiisillämme (adessive plural)
hiideltämme (ablative singular)
hiisiltämme (ablative plural)
hiidellemme (allative singular)
hiisillemme (allative plural)
hiitenämme (essive singular)
hiisinämme (essive plural)
hiideksemme (singular translative)
hiisiksemme (plural translative)
hiidettämme (abessive singular)
hiisittämme (abessive plural)
hiisinemme (comitative plural)
hiitenne (nominative singular)
hiitenne (nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative nominative singular)
hiitenne (accusative nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative genitive singular)
hiitenne (accusative genitive plural)
hiitenne (genitive singular)
hiisienne (genitive plural)
hiittenne (genitive plural rare)
hiittänne (partitive singular)
hiisiänne (partitive plural)
hiidessänne (inessive singular)
hiisissänne (inessive plural)
hiidestänne (elative singular)
hiisistänne (elative plural)
hiiteenne (illative singular)
hiisiinne (illative plural)
hiidellänne (adessive singular)
hiisillänne (adessive plural)
hiideltänne (ablative singular)
hiisiltänne (ablative plural)
hiidellenne (allative singular)
hiisillenne (allative plural)
hiitenänne (essive singular)
hiisinänne (essive plural)
hiideksenne (singular translative)
hiisiksenne (plural translative)
hiidettänne (abessive singular)
hiisittänne (abessive plural)
hiisinenne (comitative plural)
hiitensä (nominative singular)
hiitensä (nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative nominative singular)
hiitensä (accusative nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative genitive singular)
hiitensä (accusative genitive plural)
hiitensä (genitive singular)
hiisiensä (genitive plural)
hiittensä (genitive plural rare)
hiittään (partitive singular)
hiittänsä (partitive singular)
hiisiään (partitive plural)
hiisiänsä (partitive plural)
hiidessään (inessive singular)
hiidessänsä (inessive singular)
hiisissään (inessive plural)
hiisissänsä (inessive plural)
hiidestään (elative singular)
hiidestänsä (elative singular)
hiisistään (elative plural)
hiisistänsä (elative plural)
hiiteensä (illative singular)
hiisiinsä (illative plural)
hiidellään (adessive singular)
hiidellänsä (adessive singular)
hiisillään (adessive plural)
hiisillänsä (adessive plural)
hiideltään (ablative singular)
hiideltänsä (ablative singular)
hiisiltään (ablative plural)
hiisiltänsä (ablative plural)
hiidelleen (allative singular)
hiidellensä (allative singular)
hiisilleen (allative plural)
hiisillensä (allative plural)
hiitenään (essive singular)
hiitenänsä (essive singular)
hiisinään (essive plural)
hiisinänsä (essive plural)
hiidekseen (singular translative)
hiideksensä (singular translative)
hiisikseen (plural translative)
hiisiksensä (plural translative)
hiidettään (abessive singular)
hiidettänsä (abessive singular)
hiisittään (abessive plural)
hiisittänsä (abessive plural)
hiisineen (comitative plural)
hiisinensä (comitative plural)

(Finnic mythology) wooded sacred site or burial ground, or the spirit that guards it


epithalamium

en-noun

epithalamium (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia)

epithalamiums (plural)
epithalamia (plural)
epithalamion (alternative)

/ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm/

Learned borrowing from Latin epithalamium, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον (epithalámion, “bridal song”), neuter form of ἐπιθαλάμιος (epithalámios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner chamber, wedding chamber”).

der

Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift her glances flew. She shook her heavy tresses, and their perfume filled the place; she struck her little sandalled foot upon the floor, and hummed a snatch of some old Greek epithalamium.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.

1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:

(Ancient Greece) A song in praise of the bride or bridegroom


hamadryad

en-noun

hamadryad (plural hamadryads or hamadryades)

hamadryads (plural)
hamadryades (plural)

From Latin Hamadryas, from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás), from ἅμα (háma, “together”) + δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).

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The hamadryades have gone, like the golden fancies of which they were engendered—morning dreams of a young world scarce awake, but full of freshness and beauty. Yet often will the thought, or rather the fancy, come across me, that this wailing but most musical noise—heard in the dim evening, when every tree has a separate sound like a separate instrument, and every leaf a differing tone like the differing notes—is the piteous lament of some nymph pent within the gray and mossy trunk whence she may never more emerge in visible loveliness.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 301:

The various supports, rafters, braces and plates are of pandanus logs of a rich oily brown, and make one think of a sylvan cathedral where hamadryads might very well dance, where Syrinx might be chased by Pan, Daphne by Apollo, and various other heathen rites take place in the dark hours before the dawn.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 106:

(Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.


hetaera

hetaerae (plural)
hetaeras (plural)
hetaira (alternative)
hetæra (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἑταῖρα (hetaîra), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).

Coordinate term: courtesan

But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...

(historical, Ancient Greece) A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.


hyperborean

hyperboreans (plural)
Hyperborean (alternative)

/hʌɪ.pəˈbɔː.ɹɪən/

From Late Latin hyperboreanus, cognate with Classical Latin hyperboreus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), composed of ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”). See also Ὑπερβόρεοι (Huperbóreoi).

The Hyperboreans venerated Apollo over the other gods.

(Greek mythology, usually capitalised) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.

Hyperboréen

(Greek mythology), one a race of people living in the extreme north


legate

From late Old English, from Old French legat, from Latin legatus (nominal use of perfect passive participle of lego (“bequeath, send as envoy”)).

Legate, I had the news last night—my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.

1911, Rudyard Kipling, “The Roman Centurion’s Song”, in The History of England:

The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.


lustrum

refn

From the collection of the Louvre in Paris, France.

We puſh Time from us, and we wiſh Him back; / Laviſh of Luſtrums, and yet fond of Life; / Life we think long, and ſhort; Death ſeek, and ſhun; […]

1742–1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Second. On Time, Death, Friendship. Humbly Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable the Earl of Wilmington.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 29, lines 172–174:

Thus passed away two lustra of her life, and, as yet, my daughter remained nameless upon the earth. "My child," and "my love," were the designations usually prompted by a father's affection, and the rigid seclusion of her days precluded all other intercourse. Morella's name died with her at her death. Of the mother I had never spoken to the daughter;—it was impossible to speak.

1835 April, Edgar Allan Poe, “Morella”, in The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature, and the Fine Arts, Richmond, Va.: T. W. White, →OCLC; republished in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: W. J. Widdleton, publisher, 1849, →OCLC, page 473:

I am hardly, if I do not deceive myself, twenty years old, and already, dearest Rosamunda, there weigh upon my existence twenty lustrums, and of these twenty lustrums I have drunk the bitterness of intranquility even to the dregs, without having done more than touched with my lips the joy of the first days of my childhood beside you.

1852, Adadus Calpe [pseudonym; Antonio Diodoro de Pascual], chapter XIV, in Henry Edgar, transl., The Two Fathers. An Unpublished Original Spanish Work. … Translated into the English Language by the Author, and Henry Edgar. Part Second: Hector Alone, New York, N.Y.: Stringer & Townsend, publishers, […]; George P[almer] Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 189:

Q. Now, sir, if you would be so kind as to guess upon his age. / A. Forty five years are certain. I would guess a lustrum more.

1985, John Fowles, A Maggot, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN:

(by extension, literary) Synonym of quinquennium: Any 5-year period.


κεφαλή

grc-noun

κεφᾰλή • (kephălḗ) f (genitive κεφᾰλῆς); first declension

κεφᾰλή (canonical)
kephălḗ (romanization)
κεφᾰλῆς (genitive)
ἡ κεφᾰλή (nominative singular)
τὼ κεφᾰλᾱ́ (dual nominative)
αἱ κεφᾰλαί (nominative plural)
τῆς κεφᾰλῆς (genitive singular)
τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν κεφᾰλῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ κεφᾰλῇ (dative singular)
τοῖν κεφᾰλαῖν (dative dual)
ταῖς κεφᾰλαῖς (dative plural)
τὴν κεφᾰλήν (accusative singular)
τὼ κεφᾰλᾱ́ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς κεφᾰλᾱ́ς (accusative plural)
κεφᾰλή (singular vocative)
κεφᾰλᾱ́ (dual vocative)
κεφᾰλαί (plural vocative)

→ Coptic: ⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲏ (kephalē)

→ English: cephalo-

Greek: κεφαλή (kefalí)

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰepʰəlā́, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-l̥ (“head”) + *-éh₂ (“nominal suffix”). Compare κεβλή (keblḗ). False cognate of Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla).

a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").


cognomen

en-noun

cognomen (plural cognomens or cognomina)

From Latin cognōmen, from con- (“with”) + nōmen (“name; family name”).

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Julius Caesar's actual name was Gaius Iulius Caesar. Gaius was his praenomen or forename, Iulius his nomen or surname, and Caesar his cognomen, denoting which part of the Iulius family he belonged to.

Roman tradition suggests that he might also have had the cognomen Octavian to indicate his biological family.

2007, David Potter, chapter 1, in The Emperors of Rome, page 36:

"Five hundred years or more afterwards, the family migrated to Rome under circumstances of which no trace remains, and here, probably with the idea of preserving the idea of vengeance which we find set out in the name of Tisisthenes, they appear to have pretty regularly assumed the cognomen of Vindex, or Avenger."

(historical) A personal epithet or clan name added to the given name and family name of Ancient Romans.

Cognomen

the third part of the name of a citizen of ancient Rome


cognomen

la-noun

cognōmen n (genitive cognōminis); third declension

cognōmen (canonical neuter)
cognōminis (genitive)
cognōmen (nominative singular)
cognōmina (nominative plural)
cognōminis (genitive singular)
cognōminum (genitive plural)
cognōminī (dative singular)
cognōminibus (dative plural)
cognōmen (accusative singular)
cognōmina (accusative plural)
cognōmine (ablative singular)
cognōminibus (ablative plural)
cognōmen (singular vocative)
cognōmina (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: cognom

→ English: cognomen

→ French: cognomen

→ Spanish: cognombre

→ Italian: cognome
→ Cimbrian: konjåm

→ Portuguese: cognome

→ Romanian: cognomen

→ Sicilian: cugnumi

→ Spanish: cognome

From con- (“together, with”) + nōmen (“name”). The g is from false association, or analogy, with cognōscō (“recognize”)


ᾍδης

grc-proper noun

ᾍδης • (Hā́idēs) m (genitive ᾍδου); first declension

Hā́idēs (romanization)
ᾍδου (genitive)
ὁ ᾍδης (nominative singular)
τοῦ ᾍδου (genitive singular)
τῷ ᾍδῃ (dative singular)
τὸν ᾍδην (accusative singular)
ᾍδη (singular vocative)
Ἀΐδης (nominative singular)
Ἀΐδᾱο (genitive singular)
Ἀΐδε͜ω (genitive singular)
Ἀΐδω (genitive singular)
Ἀΐδῃ (dative singular)
Ἀΐδην (accusative singular)
Ἀΐδη (singular vocative)
Ἀΐδης (alternative)
Ἀΐδᾱς (alternative)
Ἀϊδωνεύς (alternative)
ᾈδωνεύς (alternative)

Greek: Άδης (Ádis)

→ Latin: Hādēs

→ Old Church Slavonic: адъ (adŭ) (see there for further descendants)

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not”) + *weyd- (“see”) + *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “that which is unseen”, equivalent to ἀ- (a-) + εἶδον (eîdon). Compare ἀϊδής (aïdḗs, “invisible”).
Puhvel (1987) argues that it is from *sm̥weyd- (from *sm̥- (compounding stem) + *weyd- (“see”) + *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “see-together” or “uniter”), equivalent to ἁ- (ha-) + εἶδον (eîdon), cognate with Russian свида́ние (svidánije, “see each other”).

cog

(Greek mythology) Hades (a mythological location, the underworld in Ancient Greek religion)


Mercúrio

planets of the Solar System: planeta do sistema solar: Mercúrio · Vénus~Vênus · Terra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano~Úrano · Neptuno~Netuno [edit]


Ῥώμη

grc-proper noun

Ῥώμη • (Rhṓmē) f (genitive Ῥώμης); first declension

Rhṓmē (romanization)
Ῥώμης (genitive)
ἡ Ῥώμη (nominative singular)
τῆς Ῥώμης (genitive singular)
τῇ Ῥώμῃ (dative singular)
τὴν Ῥώμην (accusative singular)
Ῥώμη (singular vocative)

Greek: Ρώμη (Rómi)

→ Arabic: رُومِية (rūmiya)

→ Aramaic: רומא

desc

Rōmāʾ, Rōmēʾ

Classical Syriac: ܪܘܡܐ (Rōmāʾ, Rōmēʾ)

→ Old Armenian: Հռովմ (Hṙovm), Հռոմ (Hṙom)

Armenian: Հռոմ (Hṙom)

→ Egyptian: h:r:M-t*t:xAst (hrm)

→ Parthian: (/Frōm/)

Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭐𐭓𐭅𐭌 (prwm)

Manichaean script: 𐫜𐫡𐫇𐫖 (frwm)

→ Middle Persian: (/Hrōm/, “Rome; Byzantine”)

Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (hlwm)

Manichaean script: 𐫍𐫡𐫇𐫖 (hrwm)

Pazend script: 𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬨 (arōm)

desctree

Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬𐭩 (ḥlwmy), Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (ḥlwm)
Persian: روم (rum), اروم (orum) (rare, obsolete)
→ Ottoman Turkish: روم (rum)


time immemorial

en-noun

time immemorial (usually uncountable, plural times immemorial)

from time immemorial

My home is in the North of Palestine on the other side of Jordan, beyond the Sea of Galilee. My family has dwelt there from time immemorial, but they always loved this city, and have a legend that they dwelt occasionally within its walls, even in the days when Titus from that hill looked down upon the temple.

1870, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter XVII, in Lothair. […], volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 177–178:

The tower had been consecrated to this ancient diversion from time immemorial, the western façade conveniently forming the boundary of the churchyard at that end, where the ground was trodden hard and bare as a pavement by the players.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

She had worn from time immemorial an old blue satin dress, and a white crape shawl embroidered in colors; […]

1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:

In every Circular or Polygonal household it has been a habit from time immemorial[…]that the mothers and daughters should constantly keep their eyes and mouths towards their husband and his male friends; and for a lady in a family of distinction to turn her back upon her husband would be regarded as a kind of portent, involving loss of status.

1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 4.— Concerning the Women:

The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

1888 [1848], Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, translation of Das Kommunistische Manifest by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels:

This is a great tract of a hundred thousand acres, which from time immemorial has been a hunting preserve of the nobility.

1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1906 February 26, →OCLC:

That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:

This thing is a "pyramid" since time immemorial, shit goes downhill, money goes up: it's that simple.

2002 September 15, David Chase, “For All Debts Public and Private”, in The Sopranos, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini):

(countable, uncountable) Time that extends beyond memory or record.

time that extends beyond memory or record

有史以前 (yǒushǐ yǐqián, literally “before history”)

(UK law, uncountable) Time before 6 July 1189.


Πόντος

grc-proper noun

Πόντος • (Póntos) m (genitive Πόντου); second declension

Póntos (romanization)
Πόντου (genitive)
ὁ Πόντος (nominative singular)
τοῦ Πόντου (genitive singular)
τῷ Πόντῳ (dative singular)
τὸν Πόντον (accusative singular)
Πόντε (singular vocative)

German: Pontos

Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)

Pontic Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)

→ Latin: Pontus
→ English: Pontus

→ Old Georgian: პონტოჲ (ṗonṭoy)

→ Persian: پنطس (Pontos), بنطس (Bontos)

Ottoman Turkish: پنطس (Pontos)

→ Turkish: Pontos

From πόντος (póntos, “sea”), attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀡𐀵 (po-to). Homeric Greek used πόντος (póntos) for any sea but it later began to refer specifically to the Black Sea and then to the Hellenic kingdom on its southeastern shore.


λεγεών

grc-noun

λεγεών • (legeṓn) m (genitive λεγεῶνος); third declension

legeṓn (romanization)
λεγεῶνος (genitive)
ἡ λεγεών (nominative singular)
τὼ λεγεῶνε (dual nominative)
αἱ λεγεῶνες (nominative plural)
τῆς λεγεῶνος (genitive singular)
τοῖν λεγεώνοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν λεγεώνων (genitive plural)
τῇ λεγεῶνῐ (dative singular)
τοῖν λεγεώνοιν (dative dual)
ταῖς λεγεῶσῐ (dative plural)
λεγεῶσῐν (dative plural)
taîs legeôsĭ (dative plural)
taîs legeôsĭn (dative plural)
τὴν λεγεῶνᾰ (accusative singular)
τὼ λεγεῶνε (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς λεγεῶνᾰς (accusative plural)
λεγεών (singular vocative)
λεγεῶνε (dual vocative)
λεγεῶνες (plural vocative)
λεγιών (alternative)
ληγιών (alternative)

Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)

→ Aramaic: לגיונא

→ Coptic: ⲗⲉⲅⲉⲱⲛ (legeōn)

→ Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍉𐌽 (laigaiōn)


Ἄρτεμις

grc-proper noun

Ἄρτεμις • (Ártemis) f (genitive Ἀρτέμιδος); third declension

Ártemis (romanization)
Ἀρτέμιδος (genitive)
ἡ Ἄρτεμῐς (nominative singular)
τῆς Ἀρτέμῐδος (genitive singular)
τῇ Ἀρτέμῐδῐ (dative singular)
τὴν Ἀρτέμῐδᾰ (accusative singular)
Ἄρτεμῐν (accusative singular)
Ἄρτεμῐ (singular vocative)
Ἄρταμις (alternative)

grc-decl

Ἀρτέμῐδᾰ, Ἄρτεμῐν

desc

Greek: Άρτεμις (Ártemis), Αρτέμιδα (Artémida), Άρτεμη (Ártemi)

→ Coptic: ⲁⲣⲧⲉⲙⲓⲥ (artemis)

→ Latin: Artemis

→ Old Armenian: Արտեմիս (Artemis)

→ Russian: Артеми́да (Artemída)

Uncertain. Attested from an early date as Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀳𐀖𐀵 (a-te-mi-to) and Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀴𐀖𐀳 (a-ti-mi-te); this and its alternation of e and i led Beekes and Georgios Babiniotis to suggest the name is from a Pre-Greek substrate. A connection to Anatolian names has also been suggested; Artemis was venerated in Lydia as Artimus. Ancient Greek writers, by way of folk etymology, linked the name (found in Doric as Artamis) to ἄρταμος (ártamos, “butcher”) or ἀρτεμής (artemḗs, “safe, unharmed; pure; maiden”). Others compare Artemis to the Cretan Britomartis, with whom she was syncretized.

(Greek mythology) Artemis, one of the Greek goddesses.

Artemis
Britomartis
Georgios Babiniotis
Lydia Baumbach
Robert S. P. Beekes


δηνάριον

grc-noun

δηνάριον • (dēnárion) n (genitive δηναρίου); second declension

dēnárion (romanization)
δηναρίου (genitive)
τὸ δηνάριον (nominative singular)
τὼ δηναρίω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ δηνάριᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ δηναρίου (genitive singular)
τοῖν δηναρίοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν δηναρίων (genitive plural)
τῷ δηναρίῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν δηναρίοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς δηναρίοις (dative plural)
τὸ δηνάριον (accusative singular)
τὼ δηναρίω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ δηνάριᾰ (accusative plural)
δηνάριον (singular vocative)
δηναρίω (dual vocative)
δηνάριᾰ (plural vocative)

Greek: δηνάριον (dinárion)

→ Romanian: dinar

→ Aramaic: (perhaps through Koine Greek)

Jewish Aramaic: דֵּינָרָא (dēnārā)

desc

→ Old Armenian: դենար (denar), դինար (dinar)

→ Old Georgian: დინარი (dinari)

→ Sanskrit: दीनार (dīnāra)


ort

ort (nominative singular)
orty (nominative plural)
orta (genitive singular)
ortów (genitive plural)
ortowi (dative singular)
ortom (dative plural)
ort (accusative singular)
orty (accusative plural)
ortem (instrumental singular)
ortami (instrumental plural)
orcie (locative singular)
ortach (locative plural)
orcie (singular vocative)
orty (plural vocative)

(historical) ort (type of small silver coin, minted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries)


Ἑρμῆς

grc-proper noun

Ἑρμῆς • (Hermês) m (genitive Ἑρμοῦ); first declension

Hermês (romanization)
Ἑρμοῦ (genitive)
ὁ Ἑρμῆς (nominative singular)
τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ (genitive singular)
τῷ Ἑρμῇ (dative singular)
Ἑρμέᾳ (dative singular)
τὸν Ἑρμῆν (accusative singular)
Ἑρμῆ (singular vocative)
Ἑρμῆς (nominative singular)
Ἑρμοῦ (genitive singular)
Ἑρμέω (genitive singular)
Ἑρμῇ (dative singular)
Ἑρμέᾳ (dative singular)
Ἑρμῆν (accusative singular)
Ἑρμέην (accusative singular)
Ἑρμῆ (singular vocative)
Ἑρμᾶς (alternative)
Ἑρμάων (alternative)
Ἑρμάν (alternative)
Ἑρμείας (alternative)
Ἑρμείης (alternative)

grc-decl

The accusative singular <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">Ἑρμῆ</i> (Hermê) is found in the later language

Ἑρμοῦ, Ἑρμέω

Ἑρμῆν, Ἑρμέην

→ Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲏⲥ (ermēs)

Greek: Ερμής (Ermís)

→ Latin: Hermēs

→ English: Hermes

→ French: Hermès

→ Spanish: Hermes

desctree

→ Old Armenian: Հերմէս (Hermēs)
Armenian: Հերմես (Hermes)

desc

→ Old Church Slavonic: Ермисъ (Ermisŭ), Ермии (Ermii)

→ Russian: Герме́с (Germés)

Uncertain origin; usually linked to ἕρμα (hérma, “heap of stones”), itself of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”). Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin. Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀔𐁀 (e-ma-a2).


Ῥωμαῖος

grc-noun

Ῥωμαῖος • (Rhōmaîos) m (genitive Ῥωμαίου); second declension

Rhōmaîos (romanization)
Ῥωμαίου (genitive)
ὁ Ῥωμαῖος (nominative singular)
τὼ Ῥωμαίω (dual nominative)
οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι (nominative plural)
τοῦ Ῥωμαίου (genitive singular)
τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν Ῥωμαίων (genitive plural)
τῷ Ῥωμαίῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν Ῥωμαίοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις (dative plural)
τὸν Ῥωμαῖον (accusative singular)
τὼ Ῥωμαίω (accusative dual)
τοὺς Ῥωμαίους (accusative plural)
Ῥωμαῖε (singular vocative)
Ῥωμαίω (dual vocative)
Ῥωμαῖοι (plural vocative)

desc

Greek: Ρωμιός (Romiós, “(Byzantine) Greek”), Ρωμιοί pl (Romioí); Ρωμαίος (Romaíos, “Roman”), Ρωμαίοι pl (Romaíoi)

Mariupol Greek: руме́юс (rumjéjus)

→ Arabic: رُوم (rūm)

→ Coptic: ⲣⲱⲙⲉⲟⲥ (rōmeos)

→ English: Rhomaian

→ Late Latin: Rōmaeus, Rōmaei pl

Italo-Romance:

Italian: romeo

Sicilian: Rumìu, Rumeu

Padanian:

Piedmontese: romé, romèj

Northern Gallo-Romance:

⇒ Franco-Provençal: romeâjo

→? Piedmontese: rumiagi

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: romeu

Occitan: romiu, romieu

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Old Leonese: romío

Old Galician-Portuguese: romeu

→ Galician: romeiro (semi-learned)

→ Portuguese: romeiro (semi-learned)

Old Spanish: romeo

→ Spanish: romero (semi-learned)

→ Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬𐭠𐭣𐭩𐭪 (Hrōmāy-īg)

հռովմայ-ական

→ Old Armenian: հռովմայ-ական (hṙovmay-akan), հռովմայ-եցի (hṙovmay-ecʻi)

Armenian: հռոմեական (hṙomeakan), հռոմեացի (hṙomeacʻi)

→ Sogdian: 𐫂𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫖𐫀𐫏𐫀𐫗 (βrʾwmʾyʾn /frōmāyān/, “Roman, Byzantine”)

From Ῥώμη (Rhṓmē, “Rome”) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

suffix

(in the Byzantine Empire) a citizen of the Byzantine Empire

(in the Byzantine Empire, after the Great Schism) an Eastern Orthodox Christian


Hellenic

From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), equivalent to Hellen + -ic.
The English term is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek formed in the 17th-century, attested from ca. 1640.

der

The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek.


consul

From Middle English consul, from Old English consul, from Latin cōnsul.

konsull

official who protects the interests of citizens

(historical) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

قُنْصُل

either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman republic

early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia


panther

From Middle English panter, panther, pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr, “panther”).

(mythology, heraldry) A creature resembling a big cat, typically incensed (“emitting fire”), and often having a multicolored hide, found in Ancient Greek mythology and in medieval and later heraldry (in which its depiction sometimes approaches that of a horse).


tet

en-noun

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

(uncountable, informal, medicine) The tetralogy of Fallot.

(countable, informal, medicine) A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.


diligence

diligence (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)

The precepts against parties, to whose oath of verity any point is referred, do only command them to compear at the term, with certification, that if they compear not, they shall be holden as confessing the point referred to their oath; but precepts against witnesses cannot have that certification, but all that can be done against them, or against the havers of writs, is to compel them to appear, and depone; and therefore these precepts are called executorials, because they are for putting the acts to effect by execution: they are also called compulsitors for the same reason. And they are called diligences, because they excuse the users thereof from negligence, whereby posterior diligences being exacty followed, are preferable to prior diligences being neglected, vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt, which is founded upon that great interest to hasten pleas to an end. They are also called diligences, because though the effect do not follow, yet the user thereof hath endeavoured what he could, and so is held as in the same case as if he had obtained the command of the precept. These precepts are called executorials before executions be thereupon; but they are only called diligences when they are executed in due time.
... Diligences are of three sorts, being either upon precepts before decreets, upon acts, or upon decreets.
The last sort of diligences and executorials, viz. those after decreets, which serve for putting of decreets to execution, and making them effectual, are ordinarily horning, caption, poinding, charges to remove, and thereupon letters of possession, (which are granted on all decreets in petitory and possessory actions, but declaratory actions need none,) together with the executory actions upon arrestments, and of adjudications of lands and annualrents..

1832 James, Viscount of Stair and J,S, More. The institutions of the law of Scotland. Vol 2, p 705

(Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.


tribune

From Middle English tribune, from Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribunus (“tribune, tribal leader”), from tribus (“tribe”).

der

tribune of the plebs
tribune of the plebs

(historical) An elected official in Ancient Rome, a tribune of the plebs.


tribune

tribunes (plural)
tribuni (plural)
trybune (alternative)
tribun (alternative)

English: tribune

From Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribūnus.

A Roman military tribune or similar leader of a thousand soldiers.

A Roman plebeian tribune or similar leader of a thousand civilians.


oecus

Borrowed from Latin oecus, from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

(history) An apartment, room, or hall in an ancient Roman dwelling house.


tsarism

en-noun

tsarism (usually uncountable, plural tsarisms)

tsarisms (plural)
czarism (alternative)
tzarism (alternative)

A supporter of monarchy ruled by a tsar.


Афродита

ru-proper noun+

Афроди́та • (Afrodíta) f anim (genitive Афроди́ты, nominative plural Афроди́ты, genitive plural Афроди́т)

Афроди́та (canonical)
Afrodíta (romanization)
Афроди́ты (genitive)
Афроди́ты (nominative plural)
Афроди́т (genitive plural)
Афроди́та (nominative singular)
Афроди́ты (nominative plural)
Афроди́ты (genitive singular)
Афроди́т (genitive plural)
Афроди́те (dative singular)
Афроди́там (dative plural)
Афроди́ту (accusative singular)
Афроди́т (accusative plural)
Афроди́той (instrumental singular)
Афроди́тою (instrumental singular)
Афроди́тами (instrumental plural)
Афроди́те (prepositional singular)
Афроди́тах (plural prepositional)
Афроди́та (dated nominative singular)
Афроди́ты (dated nominative plural)
Афроди́ты (dated genitive singular)
Афроди́тъ (dated genitive plural)
Афроди́тѣ (dated dative singular)
Афроди́тамъ (dated dative plural)
Афроди́ту (accusative dated singular)
Афроди́тъ (accusative dated plural)
Афроди́той (dated instrumental singular)
Афроди́тою (dated instrumental singular)
Афроди́тами (dated instrumental plural)
Афроди́тѣ (dated prepositional singular)
Афроди́тахъ (dated plural prepositional)

Аф‧ро‧ди́‧та

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Афродита

Афро̀дита (canonical feminine)
Afròdita (romanization)


Afrodita

Afrodita (nominative singular)
Afrodity (genitive singular)
Afroditě (dative singular)
Afroditu (accusative singular)
Afrodito (singular vocative)
Afroditě (locative singular)
Afroditou (instrumental singular)


Afrodita

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Afrodito (“Aphrodite”)


Afrodita

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Afrodita

sh-proper noun

Afròdita f (Cyrillic spelling Афро̀дита)

Afròdita (canonical feminine)
Афро̀дита (Cyrillic)
Afrodita (nominative singular)
Afrodite (nominative plural)
Afrodite (genitive singular)
Afrodita (genitive plural)
Afroditi (dative singular)
Afroditama (dative plural)
Afroditu (accusative singular)
Afrodite (accusative plural)
Afrodito (singular vocative)
Afrodita (singular vocative)
Afrodite (plural vocative)
Afroditi (locative singular)
Afroditama (locative plural)
Afroditom (instrumental singular)
Afroditama (instrumental plural)


Afrodita

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē), usually connected with ἀφρός (aphrós, “sea foam, froth”), but possibly of Semitic origin.


Арес

bg-proper noun

А́рес • (Áres) m


Арес

ru-proper noun+

Аре́с//Arɛ́s

Аре́с • (Arɛ́s) m anim (genitive Аре́са)

Аре́с (canonical)
Arɛ́s (romanization)
Аре́са (genitive)
Аре́с (nominative singular)
Аре́са (genitive singular)
Аре́су (dative singular)
Аре́са (accusative singular)
Аре́сом (instrumental singular)
Аре́се (prepositional singular)


Арес

А̑рес (canonical masculine)
Ȃres (romanization)


Никта

bg-proper noun

Ни́кта • (Níkta) m

Ми́масЕнцела́дТе́тидаДио́наРе́яТита́нЯпе́т


Никта

Ни̏кта (canonical feminine)
Nȉkta (romanization)
Никта (nominative singular)
Никте (genitive singular)
Никти (dative singular)
Никту (accusative singular)
Никто (singular vocative)
Никти (locative singular)
Никтом (instrumental singular)

(Greek mythology) Nyx (Greek goddess of the night)


Nikta

Nȉkta (canonical feminine)
Ни̏кта (Cyrillic)
Nikta (nominative singular)
Nikte (genitive singular)
Nikti (dative singular)
Niktu (accusative singular)
Nikto (singular vocative)
Nikti (locative singular)
Niktom (instrumental singular)


Ника

Ни́ка (canonical)
Níka (romanization)
Ни́ки (genitive)
Ни́ка (nominative singular)
Ни́ки (genitive singular)
Ни́ке (dative singular)
Ни́ку (accusative singular)
Ни́кой (instrumental singular)
Ни́кою (instrumental singular)
Ни́ке (prepositional singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē).


Ника

Ни́ка (canonical feminine)
Níka (romanization)
Ни́ка (nominative singular)
Ника (genitive singular)
Ники (dative singular)
Нику (accusative singular)
Нике (singular vocative)
Ники (locative singular)
Ником (instrumental singular)


demiurge

demiurges (plural)
Demiurge (alternative)
demiurgos (alternative)
demiurgoi (alternative)
demiurgus (alternative)
demiurgi (alternative)

From Ancient Greek δημιουργός (dēmiourgós, “one who works for the people; a skilled workman, a handicraftsman”) (whence Latin dēmiūrgus, French démiurge), from δήμιος (dḗmios, “belonging to the people, public”) (from δῆμος (dêmos, “the people”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mos (“people”), from *deh₂- (“to divide”) + Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios), from Proto-Indo-European *-yós (suffix creating an adjective from a noun)) + Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós, “worker”) (from ἔργον (érgon, “labour; task; work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom (“work”)).
No relation with English demi- (as in demigod).

der

The demiurgi were next in power to the prætor, and therefore ſtiled by Polybius and Livy, the ſupreme magiſtrates of the Achæans. They were ten in number, choſen by the general aſſembly from among the moſt eminent men of the whole league for prudence, equity, and experience. It was their office to aſſiſt, with their advice, the prætor, who was to ſay nothing before the aſſembly, but what had been previouſly approved of by the major part of the demiurgi.

1747, George Sale et al., “Sect. III. The History of the Several States of Greece, from the Beginning of the Achæan League to Its Dissolution, and thence Succinctly to the Present Time”, in An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. […], 2nd edition, volume VII, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, book II (The Grecian and Asiatic History), chapter I (The History of Sparta, from Lycurgus, to Its Being Joined by Philpœmen to the Achæans), page 225:

An important Cyrenean inscription of the 4th century, defines the functions of the demiurgi in a given situation and adds that they are discharged by these magistrates in the cities (of Libya), by the hellenodikai in the Temple of Zeus Olympios (i.e. in Olympia), by the amphiktyons at Delphi, and by the hieromnamones in the Temple of Zeus Lykaios (the Lyceum of Arcadia).

1979, Shimon Applebaum, “The Greek Colonization”, in Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene (Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity; 28), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 39:

(historical, Ancient Greece) The title of a magistrate in a number of states of Ancient Greece, and in the city states (poleis) of the Achaean League.


Philemon

la-noun

Philēmōn m sg (genitive Philēmonis); third declension

Philēmōn (canonical masculine singular)
Philēmonis (genitive)
Philēmōn (nominative singular)
Philēmonis (genitive singular)
Philēmōnis (genitive singular)
Philēmonī (dative singular)
Philēmōnī (dative singular)
Philēmonem (accusative singular)
Philēmōnem (accusative singular)
Philēmone (ablative singular)
Philēmōne (ablative singular)
Philēmōn (singular vocative)
Philēmō (alternative)

[pʰɪˈɫ̪eːmoːn]

From Ancient Greek Φιλήμων (Philḗmōn), from φιλήμων (philḗmōn, “kindly, affectionate”), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”).

(Greek mythology) Philemon (a pious rustic, the husband of Baucis, who gave hospitality to Zeus)


Golden Fleece

[ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩ ˈfliːs]

(Greek mythology) A magical fleece from a winged ram guarded by the hydra in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts.


Athenian

From Latin athēniēnsis; compare Middle English Athenyensis pl and Old English Athēniense pl. By surface analysis, Athens + -ian.

(Greek mythology) Of or related to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, technology, and skillful warfare.


Decembrist

From December + -ist, a calque of Russian декабри́ст (dekabríst).

calque

The word civicism (grazhdanstvennost’) originated in the enlightenment ideal of civic Rome, perceptions of the poet as a patriotic citizen and son of the fatherland, and Decembrist dreams of a republic.

1994, Lauren G. Leighton, Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature: Decembrism and Freemasonry, Penn State University Press, page 17:

War and Peace grew out of Tolstoy's attempts to write a Decembrist novel, a work that first began to take shape in October 1856, when "The Distant Field" was begun.

2008, Kathryn B. Feuer, Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace, Cornell University Press, page 206:

Mariia Trubnikova was raised in an atmosphere of pious reverence for Decembrist ideals.

2006, “Trubnikova, Mariia (1835-1897)”, in Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, editors, Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries, Central European University Press, page 584:

According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists.


Pleiades

From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”).

ncog

(Greek mythology) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.


Pollux

From Latin Pollūx, from Ancient Greek Πολυδεύκης (Poludeúkēs).

(Greek mythology) One of the Dioscuri, son of Zeus and Leda, brother of Castor.


Hyades

From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”).

(Greek mythology) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.


Proto-Greek

The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects.

Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Hellenic terms


Pterelas

(Greek mythology) King of the Teleboans in Plautus' Amphitruo.


common law

(law, Scots law, Roman-Dutch law) Law of general application throughout a country, province, or state as opposed to law having only a special or local application

Scots law; Roman-Dutch law; Scots law; Roman-Dutch law


Hellen

(Greek mythology) the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes, the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus


Hellen

la-proper noun

Hellēn m sg (genitive Hellēnis); third declension

Hellēn (canonical masculine singular)
Hellēnis (genitive)
Hellēn (nominative singular)
Hellēnis (genitive singular)
Hellēnī (dative singular)
Hellēnem (accusative singular)
Hellēne (ablative singular)
Hellēn (singular vocative)

Asturian: helenu

Catalan: hel·lè

French: hellène

Italian: elleno

Portuguese: heleno

Romanian: elen

Spanish: heleno

(Greek mythology) Hellen (mythological patriarch of the Greeks)


marka

marka (nominative singular)
marki (nominative plural)
marki (genitive singular)
marek (genitive plural)
marce (dative singular)
markom (dative plural)
markę (accusative singular)
marki (accusative plural)
marką (instrumental singular)
markami (instrumental plural)
marce (locative singular)
markach (locative plural)
marko (singular vocative)
marki (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Marke, from French marque, from Proto-Germanic *marką.

(historical) convertible mark (former unit of currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

(historical) ostmark (former unit of currency of East Germany)

(historical) mark (former unit of currency of Estonia)

(historical) markka (former unit of currency of Finland)

(historical) Deutsche Mark (former unit of currency of Germany)

(historical) mark (former unit of currency of Poland)


Mithraism

Translation (1903) of French mithriacisme, as used in 1899 by Franz Cumont as shorthand for "mystères de Mithra". Cumont was convinced that Mithraism was "Roman Mazdaism", hence his (and earlier) treatments of Latin Mithras and Avestan Mithra as synonyms, and the continuing de-inflection of the Latin name (vocative) as French Mithra.

It has left many monuments of itself here in Britain. At Rome the worship was extremely popular, and it may almost be said to have been a matter of chance whether Mithraism should overwhelm Christianity, or whether the younger religion by adopting many of the rites of the older one should establish itself (as it did) in the face of the latter.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 41:

"Confirmation is mithraism. So is baptism, only it was blood instead of water. As to the sacrificial meal..." Mason put his fingers in his ears.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

An astrology-based, middle-platonic mystery religion of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire that claimed to have been founded by Zoroaster, admitted only men, and was especially popular among the Roman military.


Mithras

Learned borrowing from Latin Mithras. Doublet of Mehr, mitre, and Mitra.

A Roman god, cult figure of the 2nd-to-4th-century Roman mystery religion known as the "Mysteries of Mithras" (now colloquially Mithraism)


Mithras

Mithrās m sg (genitive Mithrae); first declension

Mithrās (canonical masculine singular)
Mithrae (genitive)
Mithrās (nominative singular)
Mithrae (genitive singular)
Mithrae (dative singular)
Mithrān (accusative singular)
Mithrā (ablative singular)
Mithrā (singular vocative)

[ˈmɪt̪ʰräːs̠]

Probably via Ancient Greek Μίθρας (Míthras) from some unattested Old Iranian intermediary, ultimately from vocative Avestan 𐬨𐬌𐬚𐬭𐬀 (miθra) (cf. Mithra).
Until the 1970s, the character of Roman Mithras was widely assumed to be a continuation of that of Iranian Mithra (and thus also of Indo-Iranian *mitra). This notion is no longer followed today, and it is generally agreed that borrowing (e.g. of the name) does not constitute continuation.

A Roman god, cult figure of the 2nd–4th century Roman mystery religion known as the "Mysteries of Mithras" (now colloquially Mithraism)


OST

Office of Science and Technology
w:Office of Science and Technology

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Office of Science and Technology.


Ceto

From Ancient Greek Κητώ (Kētṓ); see also κῆτος (kêtos, “sea monster”). Compare Cetus.

(Greek mythology) A primordial sea goddess, wife of Phorcys and mother of numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.


Cepheus

(Greek mythology) Husband of Cassiopeia, king of Eritrea, father of Andromeda. There may be two mythical kings by this name.


Cepheus

Borrowed from Latin Cēpheus, from Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).


Cepheus

Cēphe͡us m sg (genitive Cēpheī); second declension

Cēphe͡us (canonical masculine singular)
Cēpheī (genitive)
Cēphe͡us (nominative singular)
Cēpheī (genitive singular)
Cēpheō (dative singular)
Cēpheum (accusative singular)
Cēpheō (ablative singular)
Cēpheu (singular vocative)
Cēphee (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).

(Greek mythology) Cepheus (a king of Ethiopia, husband of Cassiopeia, father of Andromeda)


Cassiopeia

kăs′ē-ō-pē′yə

From Latin Cassiopēia, from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia) or Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).

(Greek mythology) Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.


Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia f sg (genitive Cassiopeiae); first declension

Cassiopeiae (genitive)
Cassiopeia (nominative singular)
Cassiopeiae (genitive singular)
Cassiopeiae (dative singular)
Cassiopeiam (accusative singular)
Cassiopeiā (ablative singular)
Cassiopeia (singular vocative)
Cassiopē (alternative)
Cassiopēa (alternative)
Cassiepēa (alternative)
Cassiepīa (alternative)
Cassiepeia (alternative)

[käs̠ːiɔˈpɛi̯ä]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπεια (Kassiópeia) or Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).

(Greek mythology) Cassiopeia (the proud wife of Ethiopian king Cepheus and mother of Andromeda)


Cassiopeia

(Greek mythology) Cassiopeia (wife of Cepheus)


quadrans

From Latin quadrāns. Doublet of quadrant.

A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.


Cassiope

Cassiopē f sg (genitive Cassiopēs); first declension

Cassiopē (canonical feminine singular)
Cassiopēs (genitive)
Cassiopē (nominative singular)
Cassiopēs (genitive singular)
Cassiopae (dative singular)
Cassiopēn (accusative singular)
Cassiopē (ablative singular)
Cassiopē (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κασσιόπη (Kassiópē).

(Greek mythology) Cassiopeia (wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda)


Minoan

Sir Arthur Evans, not knowing the Minoan term for “Minoan” at the time, coined this name in the early 20th century, from Ancient Greek Μίνως (Mínōs), the mythical king of Crete. The actual name is probably reflected in Egyptian kftjw (perhaps reconstructible as *Káftayu) and Biblical Hebrew כַּפְתּוֹר (Kaftor, “Caphthor”).


Fornax

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Originally called Fornāx Chemica,
From the Latin for "chemical furnace".

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of ovens.


adjudicate

en-verb

adjudicate (third-person singular simple present adjudicates, present participle adjudicating, simple past and past participle adjudicated)

adjudicates (present singular third-person)
adjudicating (participle present)
adjudicated (participle past)
adjudicated (past)

/əˈd͡ʒʉː.dɪ.kæɪt/

Borrowed from Latin adiūdicō, adiūdicātus, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). Doublet of adjudge.

bor+

(Scots law, transitive, as of a debtor's estate) to seize or convey as security.


Apollonian

en-adj

Apollonian (comparative more Apollonian, superlative most Apollonian)

more Apollonian (comparative)
most Apollonian (superlative)

/æpəˈləʊnɪ.ən/

From Latin Apollō (Apollōn-) + -ian and Apollonius/Apollonia + -an.

You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

The forces of nature is a major theme embodied in the two main goddess characters. The "northern woman" is Appollonian ^([sic]) in her nature — cold, reserved, quiet, identified with the moon; the "southern woman" is Dionysian — passionate, a sun goddess.

1979 August 4, Linda Stein, “Stopping Short of Self-Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

Marty and I often discussed the choice we all have in controlling our cognition. We referred to harnessing this power as "the Apollonian state", after Apollo, the Greek god of the sun and light and truth. In the Apollonian state you could use reason to move away from despairing beliefs―it's never going to change, it's all my fault, there must be something wrong with me―and towards more empowered thinking.

2021, Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain, Ch.2, at p.37

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to the ancient Olympian Greek God Apollo.


Horologium

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Christian Huygens
Horologium (constellation)
Horologium Oscillitorium
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Solarium Augusti
Tower of the Winds

See horologium. As a location in Rome, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Augustī (“Sundial of Augustus”). As a constellation, a clipping of Latin Hōrologium Oscillitorium (“Pendulum Clock”), coined in 1763 by the French astronomer De Lacaille to honor the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens, who had written a major work by that name.

bor

(historical) Synonym of Solarium, a monument in ancient Rome whose obelisk was once believed to have acted as a sundial gnomon.


sesterce

From Latin sēstertius (“two-and-a-half (asses)”).

Among the people (of Rome) beſide x. modij of corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peece to boote, for time.

1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 38, page 16:

Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces […]

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:

For him I must convert one of my sheep or goats to sesterces and slaughter another for his entertainment.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:


Canopus

(Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.


Canopus

la-proper noun

Canōpus m sg (genitive Canōpī); second declension

Canōpus (canonical masculine singular)
Canōpī (genitive)
Canōpus (nominative singular)
Canōpī (genitive singular)
Canōpō (dative singular)
Canōpum (accusative singular)
Canōpō (ablative singular)
Canōpe (singular vocative)
Canōpī (locative singular)
Canōbus (alternative)

→ English: Canopus (learned)

From Ancient Greek Κάνωπος (Kánōpos, “Canopus”), Κάνωβος (Kánōbos, “Canobus”). Possibly Arabic جَنُوب (janūb, “south”) is cognate; compare the southeastern wall of the Kaaba pointing to the star and bearing the name جَنُوب (janūb).

der

(Greek mythology) the pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad


Edwardian

en-adj

Edwardian (comparative more Edwardian, superlative most Edwardian)

more Edwardian (comparative)
most Edwardian (superlative)

If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.

1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

This delightful four-platform station [Bognor Regis] is still controlled by semaphore signals and boasts a lovely red-brick Edwardian building with steel canopies, crowned with a clocktower which dates from 1902.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:

Of the period in British history from circa 1901 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.


British Empire

Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:05:16

Two hundred and forty years have passed since the 1781 Yorktown Campaign, a campaign that was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and forced the British Empire to reach concessions with the 13 Colonies.

2021-2022 Winter, Matthew R. Prescott, John P. Ruedisueli, “The Relevance of the 1781 Yorktown Campaign”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

In 1920, the British Empire covered over a quarter of the Earth's surface area.

(chiefly historical) The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office


Plutonian

Plutonian (comparative more Plutonian, superlative most Plutonian)

more Plutonian (comparative)
most Plutonian (superlative)
plutonian (alternative)

The adjective is derived from Latin Plūtōnius (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives). Plūtōnius is from Ancient Greek Πλουτώνιος (Ploutṓnios, “of or relating to Pluto”), from Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonien (modern French plutonien). The noun is derived from the adjective.

plutonien

of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism — see also Plutonic

[…] he through the midſt unmarkt, / In ſhew Plebeian Angel militant / Of loweſt order, paſt; and from the dore / Of that Plutonian Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, […]

1674, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 264:

["]Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore— / Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 144:

You rise by candle-light or gaslight, swearing / There never was a climate made like ours; / If rashly you go out to take an airing, / The soot-flakes come in black Plutonian show'rs.

1882 December 30, “A London Fog”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 83, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 301, column 1:

Cotopaxi is striking not only because it looks like a science fiction conception of another planet; it also is the least realistic among [Frederic Edwin] Church's paintings of the area. […] Below the fiery sun is a lake with a barren shore. As such, the sun hangs over a Plutonian landscape.

2008, Rodrigo Lazo, “The Ends of Enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. Expansionism in the Americas”, in Robert S[teven] Levine, Samuel Otter, editors, Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, part I (Literary and Cultural Geographies), page 210:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal.

Plutoniin liittyvä

of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld


Plutonian

From Pluto (“dwarf planet in the Solar System”) + -n- + -ian (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘from, related to, or like’, or nouns meaning ‘one belonging to, relating to, or like’), probably influenced by Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (see etymology 1).

affix

Another and perhaps more Plutonian view of this would be that David's bondage to his mother and the codes of behaviour which she set for him had extended throughout his life, in both profes[s]ional and personal spheres; and that bondage now had an opportunity of loosening, with all the attendant consequences.

1985, Liz Greene, “Fate and Synchronicity”, in The Astrology of Fate, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 293:

The notion of toxicity is a useful one in our effort to understand the further implications of Pluto in the USA chart. [...] Factor in what we have learned about the second house and we get another meaning of waste, related but distinctly more Plutonian: debris that poses an elimination problem once its value has been used up.

2006 October 6, Jessica Murray, “Power Madness: Pluto and American Hegemony”, in Soul-sick Nation: An Astrologer’s View of America, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 41:

(astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

Plutoon liittyvä

pertaining to the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet

Burl studied the captured Plutonian hand weapons, and was pleased to have one of the Neptunian soldiers pick one up and demonstrate how it was fired. It had apparently simpler controls than most Plutonian products, for it easily blazed forth a bolt of electronic fire that blasted a tall, crystalline tree to shards.

1959, Donald A[llen] Wollheim, “The Museum of Galactic Life”, in Cecile Matschat, editor, The Secret of the Ninth Planet (A Science Fiction Novel), Philadelphia, Pa.: John C. Winston Co., →OCLC; republished in The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack, [Rockville, Md.]: Wildside Press, 2012, →ISBN:

Roure did not carry his work to completion. He derived only four intermediate orbits of Pluto for the combinations of Pluto and the four outer planets, and determined the inequalities in the Plutonian motion under the effect of Neptune which are dependent on the first degree of Plutonian eccentricity and inclination.

1969 January, Sh. G. Sharaf, “Introduction”, in Theory of Motion of the Planet Pluto: Part One. Plutonian Perturbations of the First Order with Respect to Perturbing Masses: […] (NASA Technical Translations; NASA TT F-490), Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, →OCLC, page 4:

[Gerard] Kuiper (1944) searched for spectroscopic evidence of an atmosphere around Pluto as part of the same program that discovered CH₄ on Titan. Because of the difficulty of observing an object as faint as Pluto, no useful results were obtained; however, Kuiper presented arguments in favor of a Plutonian atmosphere based on the stability of the atmosphere against loss to space.

1997, Roger V. Yelle, James L[udlow] Elliot, “Atmospheric Structure and Composition: Pluto and Charon”, in S[ol] Alan Stern, David J[ames] Tholen, editors, Pluto and Charon (Space Science series), Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, part IV (Atmospheres), page 347:

[James Walter] Christy also knew that 6.39 days is the exact period of time that it takes Pluto to make one complete turn around its axis—the length of a Plutonian day.

2010, Kristi Lew, “Pluto’s Structure and Features”, in Karen Ang, editor, The Dwarf Planet Pluto (Space!), Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, →ISBN, page 31:

(astronomy) Of or relating to the dwarf planet Pluto.

plutondar

of or relating to the dwarf planet Pluto


Plutonian

If you are a Plutonian and some of these traits emphatically do not fit you, just let them go and take what is helpful and descriptive of you personally. What will be given is a composite picture, based on working with a great many Plutonians over the years. Plutonians who are negatively inclined are often very guarded and rigid, afraid to let others get close. [...] There are Plutonians who operate predominantly on the positive level—healing, transforming, transmuting themselves and those around them.

1986, Donna Cunningham, “The Personality and Character of the Plutonian”, in Healing Pluto Problems, Boston, Mass.: Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 28:

(astrology) A person under the astrological influence of Pluto, formerly regarded as a planet.

The Plutonians, who are almost extinct, once held a superscience that they have largely lost. Early Plutonian visits to Earth survived in folk memory as the devil, since Plutonians are gigantic, with horns, hooves, and tail.

1998, Everett F[ranklin] Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, “[Story Descriptions.] 1423. THE EARTHMAN’S BURDEN. Astounding Stories, June 1931, Ill. Paul.”, in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years: A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 through 1936, Kent, Oh., London: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 409, column 1:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the dwarf planet Pluto.


Enceladus

From Latin Enceladus, from Ancient Greek Ἐγκέλαδος (Enkélados).

(Greek mythology) A giant in Greek mythology.


adytum

Borrowed from Latin adytum, from Ancient Greek ἄδυτον (áduton, “innermost sanctuary; shrine”), inflected form of ἄδυτος (ádutos, “not to be entered”).

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Let us now with minds free of paſſion, enter the adytum with an intent to find out its true figure, to examine what it really was, and what it is. […] This point is properly the door-way or entrance into the adytum, as a wicket or little door, whilſt the jambs of the hithermoſt trilithons preſent themſelves, as the greater door, of about 40 feet wide, 25 cubits. […] [T]he more ſacred part of the temple at Hierapolis anſwering to our Adytum, had no door, tho' none enter'd therein but the chief prieſts.

1740, William Stukeley, “Of the Cell or Adytum of Stonehenge. Of the Surgeons Amphitheater, London.”, in Stonehenge: A Temple Restor’d to the British Druids, London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, […], →OCLC, page 23:

At the diſtance of about forty ſtadia from this temple of Æſculapius, there is an incloſure; and in it there is an adytum ſacred to Iſis. This is the moſt holy of every thing which the Greeks conſecrate to this goddeſs. For the Tithoreans neither think it proper to take up their reſidence there, nor to ſuffer any to enter the adytum, except ſuch as the goddeſs Iſis informs them by a dream ſhe thinks proper to admit.

1794, Pausanias, chapter XXXII, in [Thomas Taylor], transl., The Description of Greece, by Pausanias. Translated from the Greek. […] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for R. Faulder, […], →OCLC, book X (Phocics), pages 195–196:

(Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.

àditon

innermost sanctuary or shrine in an ancient temple


Alcmene

From Latin Alcmēnē, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκμήνη (Alkmḗnē).

(Greek mythology) Descendant of Perseus and Andromeda, the wife of Amphitryon, and mother, by Zeus, of Heracles/Hercules.

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the wife of Amphitryon and mother, by Zeus, of Heracles


sextans

(Ancient Rome) A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.


letter of relaxation

en-noun

letter of relaxation (plural letters of relaxation)

Do you think that the state of the exchanges is that which ought to guide the discretion of the Government, with reference to the issue of a similar letter of relaxation?

1858, Samuel Jones-Loyd Overstone, Overstone Tracts on Metallic and Paper Currency:

(Scots law) A letter passing the signet, whereby a debtor is relieved from personal diligence, or whereby an outlaw is reponed against sentence of outlawry.


leaver

An extraordinary cross-party summit bringing together leading leavers and remainers – including Michael Gove and senior members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet – has been held in high secrecy to address the failings of Brexit and how to remedy them in the national interest, the Observer can reveal.

2023 February 11, Toby Helm, “Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Leaver


Anthea

From Ancient Greek ἄνθη (ánthē, “blossom”).

(Greek mythology) The epithet of the Greek goddess Hera


moly

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)

From Latin mōly, from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu) (probably a loanword).

It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:

Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,)

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114:

So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.

1980, Homer, translated by Walter Shrewing, The Odyssey, Oxford, published 1998, page 120:

I would need all the secret herbs of Dicte […] . I would need as well the rest of my moly stores.

2018, Madeline Miller, Circe, Bloomsbury 2019, p. 113

(Greek mythology) A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.