Janus

From Latin Iānus (“the Roman god Janus”).

In the ages of victory, as often as the senate decreed some distant conquest, the consul denounced hostilities, by unbarring, in solemn pomp, the gates of the temple of Janus. Domestic war now rendered the admonition superfluous, and the ceremony was superseded by the establishment of a new religion. But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits in height, of a human form, but with two faces, directed to the east and west.

1789, Edward Gibbon, chapter XLI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, in the Strand, OCLC 30106274; republished Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, No. 37, South Second Street; printed by Robert Carr, 1805, OCLC 15453273, page 166

[K]nowing that the minds of the people, rendered ferocious by a military life, would never accommodate themſelves to the practice of theſe [principles of justice, laws, and morals], during the continuance of war, he [Numa Pompilius] reſolved, by a diſuſe of arms, to mollify the fierceneſs of their temper: with this view, he built a temple to Janus, near the foot of the hill Argiletum, which was to notify a ſtate either of war or of peace: when open, it denoted that the ſtate was engaged in war; when ſhut, that there was peace with all the ſurrounding nations.

1797, Titus Livius [Livy], translated by George Baker, The History of Rome, [...] In Six Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (successor to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, →OCLC, book I, page 35:

"I'll tell you what we can do," cried her persevering patroness; "we can go as masks, and Lady Juliana shall know nothing about it. That will save the scandal of an open revolt or a tiresome dispute. Half the company will be masked; so, if you keep your own secret, nobody will find it out. Come, what characters shall we choose?" / "That of Janus, I think, would be the most suitable for me," said Mary.

1810, anonymous [Susan Edmonstone Ferrier], “chapter XVI”, in Marriage, a Novel. In Three Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Prince's-Street: and John Murray, Albemarle-Street, London, published 1818, →OCLC, page 218:

We find ourselves once again sitting in Committee of the Whole House to vote a war subsidy. The present occupants of the Treasury Bench are determined that so long as they retain their places the Temple of Janus shall not be closed.

1879 February 27, A[lexander] M[artin] Sullivan, “On the Zulu War” (speech before the House of Commons of the United Kingdom); quoted in William Jennings Bryan, editor, Irish Orations (The World's Famous Orations), volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, OCLC 23127203, and republished on Bartleby.com, 2002, archived from the original on 4 October 2015

Janus, with his two heads, his mystery, his depiction as both laughing and serious, and the obvious parallel this forms with the masks of attic tragedy and comedy would make him a double of the two-headed man, the conjurer, and an associate of the trickster in folk comedy as well.

2008, John Lowe, “Laughin’ up a World: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the (Wo)Man of Words”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations), new edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloom's Literary Criticism, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:

Good reviews look both backward and forward; an argument could even be made that one must look backward in order to discern the way forward, that backward and forward are two sides of the same research coin. Nowhere is such a Janus-like perspective more apparent than in the current set of reviews.

2011, Robert M. Hodapp, “Preface”, in Robert M. Hodapp, editor, International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, volume 41, San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page xi:

(Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.

Janus

Roman god of doorways, gates and transitions


Janus

From Latin Iānus. Has been used as a Latinization of the Danish given name Jens.


Promethean

The adjective is derived from Prometheus (“demigod in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns). Prometheus is a learned borrowing from Latin Promētheus, and from its etymon Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús), from προμηθής (promēthḗs, “having forethought”) (from προ- (pro-, prefix meaning ‘before’) + μᾰνθᾰ́νω (mănthắnō, “to learn; to know, understand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”), in the sense of putting one’s mind to something)) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming a masculine noun of the person concerned with a thing).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

der

I carried with me some promethean matches, which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with his teeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it: I was once offered a dollar for a single one.

1839, Charles Darwin, chapter III, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 47:

(also attributive, historical) A kind of lucifer match consisting of a glass tube containing sulfuric acid coated on the outside with a flammable mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar and wrapped in paper rolls; the match was lit by crushing the tube with pliers, causing the acid to react with and ignite the flammable components. This type of match was superseded by the friction match which was lit by rubbing against a rough surface.


nobel

nobel (nominative singular)
noble (nominative plural)
nobla (genitive singular)
nobli (genitive plural)
noblowi (dative singular)
noblom (dative plural)
nobel (accusative singular)
noble (accusative plural)
noblem (instrumental singular)
noblami (instrumental plural)
noblu (locative singular)
noblach (locative plural)
noblu (singular vocative)
noble (plural vocative)

(historical) noble (medieval coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries)


teoria

teoryjka (diminutive)
teoria (nominative singular)
teorie (nominative plural)
teorii (genitive singular)
teorii (genitive plural)
teoryj (archaic genitive plural)
teorii (dative singular)
teoriom (dative plural)
teorię (accusative singular)
teorie (accusative plural)
teorią (instrumental singular)
teoriami (instrumental plural)
teorii (locative singular)
teoriach (locative plural)
teorio (singular vocative)
teorie (plural vocative)
teoryja (alternative)
teorya (alternative)
teorja (alternative)

→ Kashubian: teorëjô

Borrowed from French théorie. First attested in 1765.

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Magdalena Majdak (26.10.2021) “TEORIA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

(obsolete, Ancient Greece) sending of state-ambassadors


backbench

backbenches (plural)
back bench (alternative)
back-bench (alternative)

His spacious quarters indicate his transition from backbench upstart to established member of the governing team.

There was no separate back-bench organization ; indeed there were no back-bench caucuses in any Nigerian Legislative House, and any attempt to create one would probably have been regarded by the leadership concerned as a subversive move.

1963, Richard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation, published 2004, page 400:

Both Thatcher's and Major's PPSs developed the role of trying to see that those members considered loyal to the leadership won the main positions on backbench party committees.

1995, R. L. Borthwick, Churchill to Major: The British Prime Ministership Since 1945, page 153:

In fall 1984, Brian Mulroney led a cabinet with far more political experience than the Conservative backbench.

1997, David Campbell Docherty, Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons:

2009, John Coakley, Michael Gallagher, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, page 301,
In situations of low ministerial turnover and increased professionalisation of politics, with most TDs regarding politics as a career, Taoisigh could find that impatience on the backbenches leads to calls for leadership turnover to effect promotions.

A bench at the back of a room or seating area.

(politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.


House of Commons

“House”, in this term, means a deliberative assembly, while “the Commons” stands for “the common people”, as opposed to nobility.

مَجْلِس عُمُوم

lower house in UK or Canadian parliament

When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written".

2024 March 20, Conrad Landin, “"Farcical" Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act isn't working”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 25:

(UK politics) The lower house of the British Parliament.


castrum

Borrowed from Latin castrum. Doublet of Caister and Chester.

(historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.


Early Modern English

The form of the English language written and spoken from the end of the 15th century to the mid-17th century.


philosopher king

en-noun

philosopher king (plural philosopher kings)

philosopher kings (plural)
philosopher-king (alternative)

The concept comes from Plato's Republic (circa 375 BCE), which considers the ideal rulers of a city state.

(philosophy) A hypothetical ideal ruler, trained in philosophy, who has a full understanding of the Platonic ideal of the Form of the Good, and uses this for the benefit of the state.


meta

Learned borrowing from Latin mēta. Doublet of meda.

(Ancient Rome) meta (either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus)


Scáthach

(Irish mythology) The female warrior who trains Cúchulainn in the arts of war in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Scáthach

Scáthaí (genitive)
Scáthach (indefinite nominative singular)
a Scáthach (indefinite singular vocative)
Scáthaí (genitive indefinite singular)
Scáthach (dative indefinite singular)
Scáthaigh (archaic dative dialectal indefinite singular)
an Scáthach (definite nominative singular)
na Scáthaí (definite genitive singular)
leis an Scáthach (dative definite singular)
leis an Scáthaigh (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
don Scáthach (dative definite singular)
don Scáthaigh (archaic dative definite dialectal singular)
Scáthach

→ English: Scáthach


DA

DA (countable and uncountable, plural DAs or DA's)

(UK politics) Initialism of devolved administration.


euhemerize

en-verb

euhemerize (third-person singular simple present euhemerizes, present participle euhemerizing, simple past and past participle euhemerized)

euhemerizes (present singular third-person)
euhemerizing (participle present)
euhemerized (participle past)
euhemerized (past)
euhemerise (alternative)

From euhemerism + -ize, ultimately from Latin Euhēmerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros), an ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic who proposed most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which received supernatural characteristics only through retelling.

Confucian scholars frequently euhemerized the myths used to explain religious rituals to the public.

He did but extend to the New Testament the Euhemerising principles which Eichhorn had applied to the Old.

1871, Frederic William Farrar, The Witness of History to Christ, page 57:

The legend of Semiramis was a euhemerised version of the story of Istar.

1887 September 3, I. Taylor, The Academy, page 143:

(ambitransitive, derogatory) To invent a plausible but fanciful historical origin for something in order to rationalize mythology and legends.

rationalize

fanciful creation of rational explanations for the supernatural

The Yellow Emperor was perhaps euhemerized from a prehistoric tribal leader.

(ambitransitive) Synonym of deify: to actually create mythology and legends from ancient historical figures and events.

évhémériser

to explain or interpret something through euhemerism


plebiscite

Sense 1 (“referendum”) is borrowed from French plébiscite, from Latin plēbiscītum, plēbis scītum, plēbī scītum (“law of the common people or plebs”), from plēbis (the genitive singular of plēbs (“common people, plebeians”)) + scītum (“decree, ordinance, statute”).
Sense 3 (“law enacted by the common people”) is a learned borrowing from Latin plēbiscītum: see above. It is attested earlier than English plebiscitum.
Cognates
* Italian plebiscito
* Middle French plebiscite (modern French plébiscite)
* Middle Low German plebiscīt (“ordinance”)
* Spanish plebiscito, plebisçito (obsolete)

cog

(Ancient Rome, historical) Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”)


Cian

→ English: Kian

From Old Irish Cían, from cían (“long, distant, lasting”).

(Irish mythology) Son of Dian Cecht of the Tuatha Dé Danann and born with a caul on his head. Best known as the father of Lugh by the Fomarian princess Eithne.


Ness

en-proper noun

Ness (countable and uncountable, plural Nesses)

Named after the River Ness, of Celtic/Pictish origin, from a Proto-Celtic word *Nesta describing great currents, according to MacBain, from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gave the river Νέστος (Néstos), possibly *ned- (“water”).

(Irish mythology) An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa.


Eochaid Sálbuide

(Irish mythology) The king of Ulster prior to the events of the Ulster Cycle in Irish mythology. Father of Ness. He was deposed as High King by Eochaid Feidlech.


Dian Cecht

(Irish mythology) A god of healing. The healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the father of Cian.


Tuatha Dé Danann

From Irish Tuatha Dé Danann (literally “peoples of the goddess Danu”).

bor

(Irish mythology) The fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, thought to represent the gods of the Goidelic Irish. Their Christian redactors have reduced them to historical kings and heroes.


Deirdre

From Irish Deirdre, from Old Irish Derdriu.

Derdriu (alternative)
Dierdre (alternative)

(Irish mythology) The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.


Nemean Lion

(Greek mythology) A mythical lion of ancient Nemea that was invulnerable to attack by weapons and was slain by Hercules as one of his labours.


dauphin

cs-noun

dauphin m anim (female equivalent dauphine)

dauphine (feminine)
dauphin (nominative singular)
dauphini (nominative plural)
dauphinové (nominative plural)
dauphina (genitive singular)
dauphinů (genitive plural)
dauphinovi (dative singular)
dauphinu (dative singular)
dauphinům (dative plural)
dauphina (accusative singular)
dauphiny (accusative plural)
dauphine (singular vocative)
dauphini (plural vocative)
dauphinové (plural vocative)
dauphinovi (locative singular)
dauphinu (locative singular)
dauphinech (locative plural)
dauphinem (instrumental singular)
dauphiny (instrumental plural)

Malý dauphin jest nemocen, malý dauphin umře… Ve všech kostelích v království stále dnem i nocí jest vystavena svátost oltářní a veliké svíčky plají za uzdravení královského dítěte.

The little dauphin is ill, the little dauphin is going to die… In all the churches in the kingdom the Eucharist is displayed day and night and big candles burn so that the royal child recovers.

dauphin (the eldest son of the king of France and heir apparent to the French throne)


Deichtine

(Irish mythology) Female name. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the mother of Cúchulainn and sister of Conchobar mac Nessa.


placeman

Plus, contrary to hysterical prediction and uninformed innuendo, Bryant Lemuel's influence did not fill this pilot project with compliant placemen, instead leaving all appointments to the university science faculty.

2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 183:

Predictably, the brow-beaten Clement in the end submitted to Philip's demands that the papal commission, which was eventually convened in November 1309, should consist predominantly of clerics who were known to be royal placemen.

2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 32:

(UK politics, derogatory) One appointed to an office, especially in government, as a reward for political or other support; an appointee, a yes-man.


Dii Majores

From Latin di maiores (literally “greater gods”).

der

Dei Majores (alternative)
Di Majores (alternative)
geminatio vocalium (alternative)

(Roman mythology) The twelve great gods of Roman mythology, namely Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan, and Apollo.


mysteries

(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, religion) a number of secret societies or cults


Plato

Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.

My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.

1993, Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:

The Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.


Plato

la-proper noun

Platō m sg (genitive Platōnis); third declension

Platō (canonical masculine singular)
Platōnis (genitive)
Platō (nominative singular)
Platōnis (genitive singular)
Platōnī (dative singular)
Platōnem (accusative singular)
Platōne (ablative singular)
Platō (singular vocative)
Platōn (alternative)

English: Plato

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn).

Lēctitāvisse Platōnem studiōsē.


Apeliotes

From Ancient Greek Ἀπηλιώτης (Apēliṓtēs).

(Greek mythology), the Greek god of the south east winds. Apeliotes is often depicted wearing gumboots and carrying fruit.


pago

Learned borrowing from Latin pāgus (“district”).

lbor

(historical, Ancient Rome) pagus (country district)


mani

From Latin manes (“spirits of the dead”).


Hansard

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Luke Hansard
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Thomas Curson Hansard

From Hansard, the surname of Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), an English printer who inherited the business of printing reports of parliamentary debates and proceedings from his father Luke Hansard (1752–1828). T. C. Hansard added his name to the title of the reports from 1829, and from about 1859 they began to be referred to generically as “Hansards”.

Mr. BURNS thought that if they were to have a Hansard at all, they should take steps to have it thoroughly well done, and he would be very glad if they could get rid of these corrections altogether. He thought the exact words, or as nearly as possible the exact words, should be put into the Hansard, and the staff should be so efficient that there would be no necessity for corrections.

1868 October 16, A[rthur] J[ohn] Burns, “Reporting Debates”, in New Zealand. Parliamentary Debates. Third Session of the Fourth Parliament. […] (House of Representatives), volume IV, Wellington: G. Didsbury, government printer, →OCLC, page 372, column 1:

Now, Hansard's Debates originated in the year 1803, and through the enterprize of a son of the late Mr. Luke Hansard, who had been so long connected with the printing of the House, these Debates had supplied the Parliament with a very accurate record of its proceedings. They were cited continually in the House, and so great was their reputation that even in Prussia they had a Preussiches Hansard; there was also a Hansard's Debates both in Canada and Australia. [...] Suppose, then, that these Debates came to an end to-morrow; [...] the newspapers would not supply them with the materials which were now contained in Hansard. It was impossible that the newspapers could report the proceedings of the House at sufficient length.

1875 May 4, Mitchell Henry, “Parliament—Publication of Debates and Exclusion of Strangers.—Resolution.”, in Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, […] (House of Commons), volume CCXXIV (Third Series), 3rd volume of the session, London: Published by Cornelius Buck, at the office for “Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates,” […], →OCLC, columns 68–70:

He, for example, who would essay to take account of Mr. [William Ewart] Gladstone, must read much else besides Hansard; he must brush up his Homer, and set himself to acquire some theology.

1885, [Augustine Birrell], “Carlyle”, in Obiter Dicta, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 1:

In any case, the judges are not allowed to read Hansard in order to see what the sponsors, or any other member, may have said. This is a much criticised rule, but there is a certain amount to be said for it. The legislative processes, through which the parliamentary draftsman's work must pass, are confusing and muddled.

1983, Geoffrey Lewis, “Statutory Interpretation”, in Lord Atkin, London: Butterworths, →ISBN, page 118; reprinted Oxford, Oxfordshire, Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing, 1999, →ISBN:

In a country like India with a vibrant democracy, parliamentary debates play a very crucial role and are watched with keen interest by the people, who are politically conscious. The Reporters' Branch is entrusted with the responsibility of producing the Indian Hansard, i.e., the Official Report of the proceedings of Lok Sabha.

1992, “The Indian Hansard”, in Parliament of India: The Ninth Lok Sabha 1989–1991: A Study, New Delhi: Northern Book Centre for the Lok Sabha Secretariat, →ISBN, part I (Articles), page 63, column 1:

The object of the court in interpreting legislation is to give effect so far as the language permits to the intention of the legislature. If the language proves to be ambiguous I can see no sound reason not to consult Hansard to see if there is a clear statement of the meaning that the words were intended to carry. The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language. [...] I cannot agree with the view that consulting Hansard will add so greatly to the cost of litigation, that on this ground alone we should refuse to do so. Modern technology greatly facilitates the recall and display of material held centrally. I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard, of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention, but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament, nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said.

1992 November 26, Lord Griffiths [Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths] (judge of the House of Lords), “Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) … Respondent and Hart … Appellant [[1993] Appeal Cases 593]”, in The Law Reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting: House of Lords, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Peerage Cases, London: Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, published 1993, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-18, pages 617–618:

Imagine a parliamentary stenographer scribbling furiously in the days before tape recorders. His job is to record politicians' speeches so they can be written up and preserved in an official parliamentary record like Hansard. [...] When some dramatic break or swerve in the speech seems too uncertain to sort out there and then, the stenographer sticks in clumps of hyphens, partly as a signal to himself that he will need to sort this out later when "correcting" and "clarifying" his final copy for Hansard.

1993, Graham Bradshaw, “Appendix: Dashing Othello’s Spirits”, in Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 258:

Following the debate in question, Tim Loughton sent an unmarked copy of Hansard to his constituent to inform him that he would no longer be acting as his MP as the constituent had made this position untenable. [...] However, and unbeknown to Loughton, the constituent reported the debate to the police as a 'hate crime' and complained that sending a copy of Hansard was 'harassment'.

2015, Roger Williams, “Harassment in Sussex”, in Rough Justice: Citizens’ Experience of Mistreatment and Injustice in the Early Stages of Law Enforcement, Hook, Hampshire: Waterside Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Contributions, Media and Experiences), page 106:

(chiefly British, Commonwealth) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.


Júpiter

planets of the Solar System: planetes del sistema solar: Mercuri · Venus · Terra · Mart · Júpiter · Saturn · Urà · Neptú [edit]


Júpiter

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

(Roman mythology) Jupiter (chief-god of the Roman pantheon)


Júpiter

→ Bikol Central: Hupiter

→ Tagalog: Hupiter

planets of the Solar System: planeta del sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Tierra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno [edit]


Marte

planets of the Solar System: planeta do sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Terra · Marte · Xúpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno [edit]


Marte

planets of the Solar System: pianeti del sistema solare: Mercurio · Venere · Terra · Marte · Giove · Saturno · Urano · Nettuno [edit]


Marte

(mythology) The Roman god governing war; Mars.


Marte

Borrowed from Spanish Marte (“Mars”), from Latin Mārs, Mārtem.


Saturno

(Roman mythology) Saturn, Roman god of fertility and agriculture.


Saturno

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Saturno, from Latin Sāturnus.

inh+

(Roman mythology) Saturn (god of fertility and agriculture)


Neptuno

(Roman mythology) Neptune, Roman god of the ocean and earthquakes.


Neptuno

(Roman mythology) Neptune (god of the sea)


Neptuno

Borrowed from Spanish Neptuno (“Neptune”), from Latin Neptūnus, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”).

bor+

(Roman mythology) Neptune (the god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology)


Plutón

From Latin Pluton, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn).


D-Day

(historical) 6 June 1944, the date when the Allies invaded western Europe in World War II.


quimera

Borrowed from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat, chimera”). Cognate with English chimera.


palladio

it-adj

palladio (feminine palladia, masculine plural palladi, feminine plural palladie)

palladia (feminine)
palladi (masculine plural)
palladie (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin Palladius, from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιος (Palládios), derived from Παλλάς (Pallás), epithet of the goddess Athena.

(Greek mythology) Palladian (of or pertaining to Athena)


Clotho

From Latin Clōthō, from Ancient Greek Κλωθώ (Klōthṓ), from κλώθω (klṓthō, literally “to spin”).

(Greek mythology) The youngest of the three Fates, a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the spinner of the thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Nona.


Atropos

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From Ancient Greek Ἄτροπος (Átropos, “inflexible, not turning”), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + -τροπος (-tropos, “turned”).

bor

(Greek mythology) One of the three Fates, or Moirae; a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the cutter of the thread of life, depicted as an old woman. Her Roman counterpart is Morta.


Atropos

Atropos (nominative singular)
Atropos (accusative nominative singular)
Atropoksen (accusative genitive singular)
Atropoksen (genitive singular)
Atroposta (partitive singular)
Atropoksessa (inessive singular)
Atropoksesta (elative singular)
Atropokseen (illative singular)
Atropoksella (adessive singular)
Atropokselta (ablative singular)
Atropokselle (allative singular)
Atropoksena (essive singular)
Atropokseksi (singular translative)
Atropoksetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Atropokseni (nominative singular)
Atropokseni (accusative nominative singular)
Atropokseni (accusative genitive singular)
Atropokseni (genitive singular)
Atropostani (partitive singular)
Atropoksessani (inessive singular)
Atropoksestani (elative singular)
Atropokseeni (illative singular)
Atropoksellani (adessive singular)
Atropokseltani (ablative singular)
Atropokselleni (allative singular)
Atropoksenani (essive singular)
Atropoksekseni (singular translative)
Atropoksettani (abessive singular)
Atropoksesi (nominative singular)
Atropoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Atropoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Atropoksesi (genitive singular)
Atropostasi (partitive singular)
Atropoksessasi (inessive singular)
Atropoksestasi (elative singular)
Atropokseesi (illative singular)
Atropoksellasi (adessive singular)
Atropokseltasi (ablative singular)
Atropoksellesi (allative singular)
Atropoksenasi (essive singular)
Atropokseksesi (singular translative)
Atropoksettasi (abessive singular)
Atropoksemme (nominative singular)
Atropoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Atropoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Atropoksemme (genitive singular)
Atropostamme (partitive singular)
Atropoksessamme (inessive singular)
Atropoksestamme (elative singular)
Atropokseemme (illative singular)
Atropoksellamme (adessive singular)
Atropokseltamme (ablative singular)
Atropoksellemme (allative singular)
Atropoksenamme (essive singular)
Atropokseksemme (singular translative)
Atropoksettamme (abessive singular)
Atropoksenne (nominative singular)
Atropoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Atropoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Atropoksenne (genitive singular)
Atropostanne (partitive singular)
Atropoksessanne (inessive singular)
Atropoksestanne (elative singular)
Atropokseenne (illative singular)
Atropoksellanne (adessive singular)
Atropokseltanne (ablative singular)
Atropoksellenne (allative singular)
Atropoksenanne (essive singular)
Atropokseksenne (singular translative)
Atropoksettanne (abessive singular)
Atropoksensa (nominative singular)
Atropoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Atropoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Atropoksensa (genitive singular)
Atropostaan (partitive singular)
Atropostansa (partitive singular)
Atropoksessaan (inessive singular)
Atropoksessansa (inessive singular)
Atropoksestaan (elative singular)
Atropoksestansa (elative singular)
Atropokseensa (illative singular)
Atropoksellaan (adessive singular)
Atropoksellansa (adessive singular)
Atropokseltaan (ablative singular)
Atropokseltansa (ablative singular)
Atropokselleen (allative singular)
Atropoksellensa (allative singular)
Atropoksenaan (essive singular)
Atropoksenansa (essive singular)
Atropoksekseen (singular translative)
Atropokseksensa (singular translative)
Atropoksettaan (abessive singular)
Atropoksettansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄτροπος (Átropos)

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(Greek mythology) Atropos (one of he Fates in Greek mythology)


Morgan le Fay

/ˌmɔːɡən lə ˈfeɪ/

From Old Welsh or Old Breton Morgen (a female given name unrelated with the male one Morgan, literally “sea-born”) + Old French la fee (“the fairy”).

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a female given name unrelated with the male one <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Morgan</i>

(Arthurian legend) The half sister of King Arthur, known for being a powerful enchantress.


Lachesis

And if it were asked how it is known that the pocket in which Erskine kept this key was sewn on to the front of his underhose, the answer to that would be this, that one day when Erskine was doing his number one against a bush, Watt, who as Lachesis would have it was doing his number one too against the same bush, but on the other side, caught a glimpse, through the bush, for it was a deciduous bush, of the key, gleaming among the flap buttons.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) One of the three Fates (Moirae), daughter of Zeus and Themis; the measurer of each thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Decima.


Decima

(Roman mythology) One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the measurer of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Lachesis.


Decima

la-proper noun

Decima f (genitive Decimae, masculine Decimus); first declension

Decimae (genitive)
Decimus (masculine)
Decima (nominative singular)
Decimae (nominative plural)
Decimae (genitive singular)
Decimārum (genitive plural)
Decimae (dative singular)
Decimīs (dative plural)
Decimam (accusative singular)
Decimās (accusative plural)
Decimā (ablative singular)
Decimīs (ablative plural)
Decima (singular vocative)
Decimae (plural vocative)

[ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃimä]

(Roman mythology) Decima, the goddess that presides over accouchements


Nona

From the Latin meaning "the ninth", because she was prayed to in the ninth month of pregnancy.

(Roman mythology) The youngest of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the spinner of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Clotho.


Morta

(Roman mythology) One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the cutter of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Atropos.


Epimetheus

From Ancient Greek Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús, “afterthought, hindsight”).

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(Greek mythology) Son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother to Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus, of whom he ignored warnings to beware of any gifts from Zeus. He accepted Pandora as his wife, thereby bringing sorrow to the world; father to Pyrrha.


Epimetheus

la-proper noun

Epimētheus m sg (genitive Epimētheī or Epimētheos); second declension

Epimētheus (canonical masculine singular)
Epimētheī (genitive)
Epimētheos (genitive)
Epimētheus (nominative singular)
Epimētheī (genitive singular)
Epimētheos (genitive singular)
Epimētheō (dative singular)
Epimētheum (accusative singular)
Epimēthea (accusative singular)
Epimētheō (ablative singular)
Epimētheu (singular vocative)

[ɛpɪˈmeːt̪ʰɛu̯s̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús).


Erato

(Greek mythology) The goddess of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, eroticism, and mimic imitation, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne. Usually depicted with a crown/wreath of myrtle and roses, holding a lyre and a golden arrow and doves. Often accompanies Eros/Cupid.


Erato

(Greek mythology) Erato (muse of lyric poetry)


Erinys

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνῡ́ς (Erīnū́s). Possibly "the angry spirits" from ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to raise, stir, excite [towards anger]”).

(Greek mythology) One of the female personifications of vengeance, particularly wrong or immoral deeds on behalf of the victims.


Euterpe

(Greek mythology) The Muse of music and lyric poetry.


Euterpe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐτέρπη (Eutérpē).


Euterpe

Borrowed from Latin Euterpe, from Ancient Greek Εὐτέρπη (Eutérpē).

(Greek mythology) Euterpe (the Muse of music and lyric poetry)


Gaia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γαῖᾰ (Gaîă, “Gaea, the Earth personified as a goddess”), from γαῖᾰ (gaîă, “the Earth”), probably related to γῆ (gê, “earth, land; country”).
Sense 1 was coined by the British scientist, environmentalist, and futurist James Lovelock (born 1919) in his book Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), at the suggestion of the British novelist, playwright, and poet William Golding (1911–1993): see the quotation.

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While investigating the Greek mythology, we have found reason to suppose that Juno, Ceres, and Gaia are but three different forms of the same original tradition of a divine feminine: of whom Ceres is the Pelasgian copy, Juno the vivid and powerful Hellenic development, and Gaia the original skeleton, retaining nothing of the old character, but having acquired the function of gaol-keeper for perjurors when sent to the other world.

1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Ilios. The Trojans Compared and Contrasted with the Greeks.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. … In Three Volumes, volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 153:

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.


Ganymede

From French Ganymède, from Latin Ganymēdēs, from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “meant to please”), from γάνυμαι (gánumai, “I rejoice, I am glad”) + μήδεα (mḗdea, “thought, intention”). Doublet of catamite.

(Greek mythology) A Trojan boy who was abducted (either by Zeus or Eos), and ultimately became immortal in order to be Zeus' cupbearer.


Ganymede

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Ganimedes


Ganymede

Borrowed from English Ganymede, from French Ganymède, from Latin Ganymēdēs, from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Ganymede (lover of Jupiter/Zeus)


Orpheus

From Ancient Greek Ὀρφεύς (Orpheús), built from an uncertain root with the -εύς (-eús) suffix. Perhaps root-cognate to Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphan”).

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(Greek mythology) A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades.


Orpheus

From English Orpheus, from Ancient Greek.


Hecate

Via Latin Hecatē from Ancient Greek Ἑκάτη (Hekátē), possibly the feminine equivalent of Ἑκατός (Hekatós) or ἑκάεργος (hekáergos), an obscure epithet of Apollo, variously interpreted as "one who works/operates from afar", "one who drives off", "the far reaching one" or "the far-darter". Some rather suggest that the name derives from Ancient Greek ἑκών (hekṓn, “will”).

(Greek mythology) A powerful goddess of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.

(astronomy) 100 Hekate, a main belt asteroid.


Hecate

la-proper noun

Hecatē f sg (genitive Hecatēs); first declension

Hecatē (canonical feminine singular)
Hecatēs (genitive)
Hecatē (nominative singular)
Hecatēs (genitive singular)
Hecatae (dative singular)
Hecatēn (accusative singular)
Hecatē (ablative singular)
Hecatē (singular vocative)
Hecata (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Hecate; daughter of the Titan Perses and Titaness Asteria (sister of Latona); the presider over enchantments, conjurations; a goddess of magic, the night moon, the underworld, and of the haunted crossroad; variously conflated with Roman deities Diana Trivia (crossroads), Luna (moonlight), and Proserpina (Hades)


Helios

From Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (Hḗlios), from ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”).

(Greek mythology) The god of the Sun; son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene and Eos, father of Phaeton amongst others. His Roman counterpart is Sol.


Helios

Helios (nominative singular)
Heliosa (genitive singular)
Heliosowi (dative singular)
Heliosa (accusative singular)
Heliosem (instrumental singular)
Heliosie (locative singular)
Heliosie (singular vocative)


Hephaestus

From Ancient Greek Ἥφαιστος (Hḗphaistos), a pre-Greek word of unknown origin.

(Greek mythology) The god of fire, smithwork, metallurgy, volcanoes, and artisans, who served as blacksmith of the gods. His Roman counterpart is Vulcan.


Hercules

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Hercules (plural Herculeses or Hercules or (obsolete) Herculesses or (obsolete) Hercules's)

Herculeses (plural)
Hercules (plural)
Herculesses (obsolete plural)
Hercules's (obsolete plural)

From Latin Herculēs, from Etruscan 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄 (hercle), from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), apparently cognate of Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) and, according to Haudry, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

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THere were many Hercules'''’s, but (as Tully ſays, de Nat. Deor. lib. 3.) the famous Actions of them all are aſcrib’d to him who was the Son of Jupiter, by Alcmena, the Wife of Amphitryo King of Thebes.

1698, The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes, in a Short, Plain and Familiar Method by Way of Dialogue, 2nd edition, London: […] Charles Harper, […], page 332:

THere were many Hercules'''’s amongſt the Antients; Varro enumerates Forty four. The moſt famous were, Hercules Marguſanus, Hercules Ogmius, who was the Symbol of Eloquence amongſt the Gauls; Hercules Pollens, Hercules Thebanus, firſt called Alcides, Hercules' Tyrius, or Egyptian; and there were two of them; the Elder called Melicarthus, or Eſau, the Founder of the City of Tyre; and the Younger, who Subdu’d Geryon, and was Worſhipped in Sidon in Spain.

1705, The Antient Religion of the Gentiles, and Causes of Their Errors Consider’d: […], London: […] John Nutt, […], page 166:

Mr. Sympſon would read Theban, the Story of Omphale being, as he thinks, only applicable to him: But as there were many Hercules'''’s, and among the reſt a Libyan, the Son of Jupiter Ammon; if it is inaccurate, it ſeems the Inaccuracy of a Scholar, and not an Error of the Preſs.

1750, The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, volume the third, London: […] J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper […], page 70:

Supporters.] Two Herculeſſes, with clubs over their ſhoulders, proper, crined and habited about the middle, or.

1769, The New Peerage; or Present State of the Nobility of England: […], volume III, London: […] R. Davis, […]; L. Davis, […]; and W. Owen, […], page 227:

There were so many Hercules in the Grecian mythology and history, that it was necessary to specify when the principal Hercules, the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, was meant.

1795, Paradise Regained, a Poem, in Four Books, by John Milton. A New Edition, with Notes of Various Authors, by Charles Dunster, M.A., London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], page 258:

Thus he enumerates many Hercules’s, and many Mercury’s; but one part of the history of each is so much the same, that I know not how he could avoid perceiving that they were only two names of one person.

1838, L[eveson] Vernon Harcourt, The Doctrine of the Deluge; Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the Doubts Which Have Recently Been Cast upon It by Geological Speculations, volume I, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], page 453:

[…]—Hercules—Was Nimrod, the grand-son of Noah, and the origin of all the fabled Herculesses of all the early nations—[…]

1843, [Josiah Priest], Slavery, as It Relates to the Negro, or African Race, Examined in the Light of Circumstances, History and the Holy Scriptures; […], Albany, N.Y.: C. Van Benthuysen and Co., page VII:

Our great cities have become so many Augean stables, for the removal of whose filth as many Hercules are required.

1848, Richard B[oxall] Grantham, A Treatise on Public Slaughter-Houses, Considered in Connection with the Sanitary Question. […], London: […] J[ohn] Weale, […]; and […] Henry Renshaw, […], page 25:

“[…] Diogenes turned Hercules into ridicule; and the Roman Cynic Varro introduces three hundred Joves without heads.” From the stage abuser the sarcastic African father selects, partly from his own former observation, those of Diana being flogged, the reading of Jupiter’s will after his decease, and the three half-starved Herculesses!

1884, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […], page 112:

[…] and now was Hercules famous at Tyre: not he that we spoke of before: (for the more secret histories say there were many Hercules, and many father Libers) and this Hercules they make famous for twelve sundry rare exploits […]

The two Hercules are positioned on the same convex, bulging frame of the lower stern gallery as David, but furthest to the port (No. 397) and to the starboard (No. 1279) respectively of the centre line.

1986, Hans Soop, The Power and the Glory: The Sculptures of the Warship Wasa, Almqvist & Wiksell, →ISBN, page 43:

By this time, however, Maciste had lost his individuality and had become indistinguishable from the many Herculeses, Atlases, and other assorted neomythological strongmen, all played by a host of American bodybuilders.

2008, Gino Moliterno, Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts; 28), The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 188:

(Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his 12 labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.

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The Roman name of Heracles — see also Heracles


Hercules

la-proper noun

Herculēs m sg (genitive Herculis or Hercule͡i or Herculī); third declension

Herculēs (canonical masculine singular)
Herculis (genitive)
Hercule͡i (genitive)
Herculī (genitive)
Herculēs (nominative singular)
Herculēs (nominative plural)
Herculis (genitive singular)
Hercule͡i (genitive singular)
Herculī (genitive singular)
Herculum (genitive plural)
Herculī (dative singular)
Herculibus (dative plural)
Herculem (accusative singular)
Herculēs (accusative plural)
Hercule (ablative singular)
Herculibus (ablative plural)
Herculē̆ (singular vocative)
Herculēs (singular vocative)
Herclē̆ (singular vocative)
Herculēs (plural vocative)
Hercelēs (alternative)
Herclēs (alternative)
Erclēs (alternative)

[ˈhɛrkʊɫ̪eːs̠]

Via the Etruscan 𐌇𐌄𐌓𐌂𐌋𐌄 (hercle), from the Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), apparently cognate of Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) and, according to Haudry, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

Nē Herculēs quidem contrā/adversus duōs (Μηδ’ Ἡρακλῆς πρὸς δύο).

(Greek mythology) Hercules, Heracles, heroic son of Zeus.


Heracles

From Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês), from Ἥρα (Hḗra, “Hera”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

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Herakles (alternative)
Hêraklês (alternative)

(Greek mythology): Son of Zeus and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his 12 labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.


Heracles

Héracles (alternative)
Hércules (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Heracles (the son of Zeus)


Hermes

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From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).

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(Greek mythology) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.


Hermes

cs-proper noun

Hermes m anim (relational adjective Hermův)

Hermův (adjective relational)
Hermes (nominative singular)
Herma (genitive singular)
Hermovi (dative singular)
Herma (accusative singular)
Herme (singular vocative)
Hermovi (locative singular)
Hermem (instrumental singular)


Hermes

la-proper noun

Hermēs m sg (genitive Hermae); first declension

Hermēs (canonical masculine singular)
Hermae (genitive)
Hermēs (nominative singular)
Hermae (nominative plural)
Hermae (genitive singular)
Hermārum (genitive plural)
Hermae (dative singular)
Hermīs (dative plural)
Hermēn (accusative singular)
Hermās (accusative plural)
Hermē (ablative singular)
Hermīs (ablative plural)
Hermē (singular vocative)
Hermae (plural vocative)
Herma (alternative)


Hermes

Hermes (nominative singular)
Hermesa (genitive singular)
Hermesowi (dative singular)
Hermesa (accusative singular)
Hermesem (instrumental singular)
Hermesie (locative singular)
Hermesie (singular vocative)


Hermes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of unknown meaning and origin.

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(Greek mythology) Hermes (messenger of the gods)


Hermes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).


Hermes

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).


Hestia

From Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), from ἑστία (hestía, “hearth”).

(Greek mythology) The virgin goddess of the hearth, and the household, and therefore of domestic life.


Hestia

Hestia (nominative singular)
Hestii (genitive singular)
Hestii (dative singular)
Hestię (accusative singular)
Hestią (instrumental singular)
Hestii (locative singular)
Hestio (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), from ἑστία (hestía, “hearth”).


Hestia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía).


Hestia

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), from ἑστία (hestía, “hearth”).


Vesta

From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία (hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία (Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “abide dwell”).
Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.

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(Roman mythology) The virgin goddess of the hearth, fire, and the household, and therefore a deity of domestic life. The Roman counterpart of Hestia.


Vesta

la-proper noun

Vesta f (genitive Vestae); first declension

Vestae (genitive)
Vesta (nominative singular)
Vestae (nominative plural)
Vestae (genitive singular)
Vestārum (genitive plural)
Vestae (dative singular)
Vestīs (dative plural)
Vestam (accusative singular)
Vestās (accusative plural)
Vestā (ablative singular)
Vestīs (ablative plural)
Vesta (singular vocative)
Vestae (plural vocative)

From Proto-Italic *Westā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell, reside, live in”); see also Ancient Greek Ἑστία (Hestía), Old High German wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “to abide, to dwell”).

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cur sit virginibus, quæris, dea culta ministris? / inveniam causas hac quoque parte suas. / ex Ope Iunonem memorant Cereremque creatas / semine Saturni; tertia Vesta fuit. / utraque nupserunt, ambæ peperisse feruntur; / de tribus impatiens restitit una viri.

Why, you ask, is the goddess tended by virgin ministers? I’ll discover the true causes for this as well. They say that Juno and Ceres were born of Ops by Saturn’s seed; Vesta was the third daughter. The other two married, both reported to have borne children; of the three, one remained who could not bear a husband.

(Roman mythology, religion) Vesta, goddess of the hearth and the household, equivalent to Greek Hestia.


Vesta

English: Vesta

(mythology) The Roman goddess of the hearth and home; Vesta.


Vesta

(Roman mythology) Vesta (goddess of domestic life)


Vesta

Vȅsta (canonical feminine)
Ве̏ста (Cyrillic)
Vȅsta (nominative singular)
Veste (genitive singular)
Vesti (dative singular)
Vestu (accusative singular)
Vesto (singular vocative)
Vesti (locative singular)
Vestom (instrumental singular)


Melpomene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μελπομένη (Melpoménē), from μέλπω (mélpō, “to sing”).


Melpomene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μελπομένη (Melpoménē).


Melpomene

Melpómene (alternative)
Melpômene (alternative)

(Greek mythology) Melpomene (Muse of tragedy)


Melpomene

From Ancient Greek Μελπομένη (Melpoménē).


Menoetius

From Ancient Greek Μενοίτιος (Menoítios). The name "Menoetius" literally means "defying fate" or "ruined strength".

(Greek mythology) A Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, he had three brothers: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He joined Cronus and the Titans in their unsuccessful war against the Olympian gods. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt and sent him down to Tartarus.

(Greek mythology) One of Hades' shepherds on Erythea. He told Geryon when Heracles stole Geryon's herd.

(Greek mythology) Father of Patroclus and son of Actor. (Iliad, XI, 765)


Moirae

From Ancient Greek Μοῖραι (Moîrai, “Moirae”), from μοῖρᾰ (moîră, “lot, destiny”).

(Greek mythology) The Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the goddesses, who controlled every person's destiny by weaving the thread of life.


Moira

(Greek mythology) The personification of fate, especially as Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.


Moira

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μοῖρα (Moîra).


Moira

(Greek mythology) Moira (personification of fate)


Nyx

(Greek mythology) The primordial goddess of night.


Nyx

Nyx (nominative singular)
Nykty (genitive singular)
Nyktě (dative singular)
Nyktu (accusative singular)
Nykto (singular vocative)
Nyktě (locative singular)
Nyktou (instrumental singular)

Aether, syn Ereba a Nykty, stvořil nebe, Zemi, moře[…]

1905, “Aether”, in Malý Ottův slovník naučný, Praha: J. Otto, page 23:

Aether, son of Erebus and Nyx, created the Heaven, the Earth and the Sea […]


Oceanus

From Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós). Doublet of ocean.

(Greek mythology) Personification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god Ωκεανός Ποταμός (Ōkeanós Potamós, “River Ocean”) that encircled the earth. With his sister-wife, Tethys, he fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.


Polyhymnia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πολυύμνια (Poluúmnia), Πολύμνια (Polúmnia)

lbor

(Greek mythology) The Muse of sacred music.


Tethys

(Greek mythology) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.


Tethys

Borrowed from English Tethys, from Ancient Greek Τηθύς (Tēthús).


Ulysses

(Greek mythology) Ulysses (the hero of the Iliad and Odyssey), Latin name form of Odysseus


Odysseus

From Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεύς (Odusseús). Doublet of Ulysses.

(Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.

Odusseus

son of Laertes; Greek leader during the Trojan War


Urania

(Greek mythology) The Muse of astronomy.

(Greek mythology) One of the epithets of Aphrodite.


Urania

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐρανία (Ouranía).


Diana

→ Hawaiian: Kiana
→ English: Kiana

→ Serbo-Croatian: Дајана, Dajana

→ Spanish: Dayana

Borrowed from Late Latin Diāna, short form of Latin Dīāna, derived by syncope from Old Latin Dīvāna, equivalent to dīvus + -āna; roughly akin to Proto-Italic *deiwā (“goddess”) + Proto-Indo-European *-néh₂.
Originally an Old Italic divinity of light and the moon; later identified as the Roman counterpart to Greek goddess Artemis. Cognate of Attic Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē), similarly syncopated from older Ancient Greek Διϝωνη (Diwōnē), whence via Latin Diōne is derived English Dione used in various ways across astronomy, chemistry, biology, and as a given name. From the same root Proto-Indo-European *dyúh₃onh₂- also potentially cognate to English June via Latin Jūnō.

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and all the world worshippeth.

(Roman mythology) The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.


Diana

From English Diana, borrowed from Latin Diāna.

(Roman mythology) Diana; the daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis


Diana

Diana (nominative singular)
Diany (nominative plural)
Diany (genitive singular)
Dian (genitive plural)
Dianě (dative singular)
Dianám (dative plural)
Dianu (accusative singular)
Diany (accusative plural)
Diano (singular vocative)
Diany (plural vocative)
Dianě (locative singular)
Dianách (locative plural)
Dianou (instrumental singular)
Dianami (instrumental plural)


Diana

la-proper noun

Dīāna or Diāna f (genitive Dīānae or Diānae); first declension

Dīāna (canonical)
Diāna (canonical feminine)
Dīānae (genitive)
Diānae (genitive)
Dīāna (nominative singular)
Dīānae (nominative plural)
Dīānae (genitive singular)
Dīānārum (genitive plural)
Dīānae (dative singular)
Dīānīs (dative plural)
Dīānam (accusative singular)
Dīānās (accusative plural)
Dīānā (ablative singular)
Dīānīs (ablative plural)
Dīāna (singular vocative)
Dīānae (plural vocative)
Diāna (nominative singular)
Diānae (nominative plural)
Diānae (genitive singular)
Diānārum (genitive plural)
Diānae (dative singular)
Diānīs (dative plural)
Diānam (accusative singular)
Diānās (accusative plural)
Diānā (ablative singular)
Diānīs (ablative plural)
Diāna (singular vocative)
Diānae (plural vocative)
Deana (alternative)
Iāna (alternative)
Jāna (alternative)

la-ndecl

Old Latin long i form Dīāna, first-declension noun

Late Latin short i form Diāna, first-declension noun

Eastern Romance

Aromanian: dzãnã, zãnã

Romanian: zână

Old French: gene (“mischievous fairy”)

Sardinian: giàna

West Iberian

Asturian: xana

Galician: xa (“mischievous fairy”)

→? Albanian: zanë

⇒ Neapolitan: janara (“witch”)

→ Belarusian: Дзіяна (Dzijana)

→ Bulgarian: Диана (Diana)

→ Catalan: Diana

→ Coptic: Ⲇⲓⲁⲛⲏ (Dianē)

→ Czech: Diana

→ Danish: Diana

→ Dutch: Diana

→ English: Diana (see there for further descendants)

→ Estonian: Diana

→ Faroese: Diana

→ French: Diane (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Diana

→ Hungarian: Diána

→ Icelandic: Díana

→ Italian: Diana

→ Latvian: Diāna

→ Lithuanian: Diana

→ Macedonian: Дијана (Dijana)

→ Norwegian: Diana

→ Polish: Diana

→ Portuguese: Diana

→ Romani: Teany

→ Romanian: Diana

→ Russian: Диана (Diana)

→ Serbo-Croatian: Дијана, Dijana

→ Slovak: Diana

→ Slovene: Dijana

→ Spanish: Diana

→ Swedish: Diana

→ Ukrainian: Діана (Diana)

Original form with long i Dīāna, derived by syncope from Dīvāna, equivalent to dīvus + -āna; some inscriptions read Deiana or Deana, akin to deus + -āna; both feminine stem words dīva and dea meaning “goddess” derived from Old Latin deiva, from Proto-Italic *deiwā from Proto-Indo-European *deywós from *dyew- (“heaven, day sky; to shine”). See Old Latin Diēspiter, a primitive form of Iuppiter, formed by appending a suffix to Latin diēs, cognate to both dīvus and deus.
Diana is also called Iāna (“Jana”), analogous to procope of Old Latin Diovis into Iovis (“Jove”).
The form Dīviāna occurs in Varro's attempt to explain the etymology of the name, with the now-discredited explanation that "quod luna in altitudinem et latitudinem simul <i>t, Diviana, appellata"; the intention seems to be to derive the name from dēviō (“stray, deviate”), from via (“road”). If Dīviāna was a genuinely used variant form (rather than a hypothetical form proposed as a precursor), it appears to represent a univerbation dīva + Iāna, literally “Goddess Jana”.
Compare Attic Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē), Doric Greek Διώνᾱ (Diṓnā), syncopated from Ancient Greek Διϝωνᾱ (Diwōnā), from a shared root whence by analogical formation also evolved Latin Iūnō, Iūnōnis.

(religion) Diana, the daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated with wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Greek goddess Artemis.


Diana

Diana (nominative singular)
Diany (genitive singular)
Dianie (dative singular)
Dianę (accusative singular)
Dianą (instrumental singular)
Dianie (locative singular)
Diano (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin Diāna, from Latin Dīāna, from Old Latin Dīvāna.


Diana

/d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nɐ/

[d͡ʒɪˈɐ̃.nɐ]

/ˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.nɐ/

/d͡ʒiˈɐ̃.nɐ/

[d͡ʒɪˈɐ̃.nɐ]

/ˈd͡ʒjɐ̃.nɐ/

Learned borrowing from Latin Diāna. Doublet of Daiane and Daiana.


Diana

sk-proper noun

Diana f (genitive singular Diany, nominative plural Diany, declension pattern of žena)

Diany (genitive singular)
Diany (nominative plural)
žena (declension-pattern-of)
Diana (nominative singular)
Diany (nominative plural)
Diany (genitive singular)
Dián (genitive plural)
Diane (dative singular)
Dianám (dative plural)
Dianu (accusative singular)
Diany (accusative plural)
Diane (locative singular)
Dianách (locative plural)
Dianou (instrumental singular)
Dianami (instrumental plural)


Minerva

مِينِيرْفَا

In many works of this ſpecies, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wiſe and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumſtances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate; and to act like goddeſſes of wiſdom, juſt come forth highly finiſhed Minervas from the head of Jove.

1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “Author’s Preface”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC:

(Roman mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.


Minerva

Minerva (nominative singular)
Minervy (genitive singular)
Minervě (dative singular)
Minervu (accusative singular)
Minervo (singular vocative)
Minervě (locative singular)
Minervou (instrumental singular)

(Roman mythology) Minerva (Roman goddess)


Minerva

la-proper noun

Minerva f (genitive Minervae); first declension

Minervae (genitive)
Minerva (nominative singular)
Minervae (nominative plural)
Minervae (genitive singular)
Minervārum (genitive plural)
Minervae (dative singular)
Minervīs (dative plural)
Minervam (accusative singular)
Minervās (accusative plural)
Minervā (ablative singular)
Minervīs (ablative plural)
Minerva (singular vocative)
Minervae (plural vocative)
Menerva (alternative)
Menrva (alternative)

→ English: Minerva

q

from Old Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">Menerva</i>

→ Etruscan: 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌀 (menerva) (from Old Latin Menerva)

→ French: Minerve

→ Japanese: ミネルウァ (Mineruwa) (learned)

→ Portuguese: Minerva

→ Spanish: Minerva

Inherited from Proto-Italic *menerwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”). Compare Sanskrit मनस्विन् (manasvín, “full of mind or sense”).
Another hypothesis by Clayton (2024) suggests derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ménwr̥ (“though”), from the same root above.


Minerva

(Roman mythology) Minerva (goddess of wisdom)


Minerva

From Latin Minerva, from Proto-Italic *menezwā, from Proto-Indo-European *menesweh₂, extended from *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”).


Etruria

/ɪˈtɹʊə.ɹɪ.ə/

Italian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula#English

(historical) An ancient country in Italian Peninsula, located between the Arno and Tiber rivers, corresponding to modern day Tuscany in Western Italy; the home of Etruscans.

(historical) A former kingdom in Northern Italy, lasted between 1801 and 1807.

A suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8646).


Andromeda

/ænˈdɹɒmɪdə/

/ænˈdɹɑmɪdə/

Borrowed from Latin Andromeda, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda), Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē).

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of Eritrea, rescued from her sacrifice to the sea monster Cetus by Perseus, who married her; mother of Perses, ancient king of Persia.


Andromeda

Borrowed from Latin Andromeda, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda).


Andromeda

Andromeda (nominative singular)
Andromeda (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedan (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedan (genitive singular)
Andromedaa (partitive singular)
Andromedassa (inessive singular)
Andromedasta (elative singular)
Andromedaan (illative singular)
Andromedalla (adessive singular)
Andromedalta (ablative singular)
Andromedalle (allative singular)
Andromedana (essive singular)
Andromedaksi (singular translative)
Andromedatta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Andromedani (nominative singular)
Andromedani (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedani (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedani (genitive singular)
Andromedaani (partitive singular)
Andromedassani (inessive singular)
Andromedastani (elative singular)
Andromedaani (illative singular)
Andromedallani (adessive singular)
Andromedaltani (ablative singular)
Andromedalleni (allative singular)
Andromedanani (essive singular)
Andromedakseni (singular translative)
Andromedattani (abessive singular)
Andromedasi (nominative singular)
Andromedasi (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedasi (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedasi (genitive singular)
Andromedaasi (partitive singular)
Andromedassasi (inessive singular)
Andromedastasi (elative singular)
Andromedaasi (illative singular)
Andromedallasi (adessive singular)
Andromedaltasi (ablative singular)
Andromedallesi (allative singular)
Andromedanasi (essive singular)
Andromedaksesi (singular translative)
Andromedattasi (abessive singular)
Andromedamme (nominative singular)
Andromedamme (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedamme (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedamme (genitive singular)
Andromedaamme (partitive singular)
Andromedassamme (inessive singular)
Andromedastamme (elative singular)
Andromedaamme (illative singular)
Andromedallamme (adessive singular)
Andromedaltamme (ablative singular)
Andromedallemme (allative singular)
Andromedanamme (essive singular)
Andromedaksemme (singular translative)
Andromedattamme (abessive singular)
Andromedanne (nominative singular)
Andromedanne (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedanne (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedanne (genitive singular)
Andromedaanne (partitive singular)
Andromedassanne (inessive singular)
Andromedastanne (elative singular)
Andromedaanne (illative singular)
Andromedallanne (adessive singular)
Andromedaltanne (ablative singular)
Andromedallenne (allative singular)
Andromedananne (essive singular)
Andromedaksenne (singular translative)
Andromedattanne (abessive singular)
Andromedansa (nominative singular)
Andromedansa (accusative nominative singular)
Andromedansa (accusative genitive singular)
Andromedansa (genitive singular)
Andromedaansa (partitive singular)
Andromedassaan (inessive singular)
Andromedassansa (inessive singular)
Andromedastaan (elative singular)
Andromedastansa (elative singular)
Andromedaansa (illative singular)
Andromedallaan (adessive singular)
Andromedallansa (adessive singular)
Andromedaltaan (ablative singular)
Andromedaltansa (ablative singular)
Andromedalleen (allative singular)
Andromedallensa (allative singular)
Andromedanaan (essive singular)
Andromedanansa (essive singular)
Andromedakseen (singular translative)
Andromedaksensa (singular translative)
Andromedattaan (abessive singular)
Andromedattansa (abessive singular)

From Latin Andromeda, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda).


Andromeda

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē).


Andromeda

la-proper noun

Andromeda f sg (genitive Andromedae); first declension

Andromedae (genitive)
Andromeda (nominative singular)
Andromedae (genitive singular)
Andromedae (dative singular)
Andromedam (accusative singular)
Andromedā (ablative singular)
Andromeda (singular vocative)
Andromedē (alternative)

[än̪ˈd̪rɔmɛd̪ä]

[än̪ˈd̪rɔːmed̪ä]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda).

(Greek mythology) Andromeda (a daughter of Ethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia)


Andromeda

sh-proper noun

Andròmeda f (Cyrillic spelling Андро̀меда)

Andròmeda (canonical feminine)
Андро̀меда (Cyrillic)


cross the floor

en-verb

cross the floor (third-person singular simple present crosses the floor, present participle crossing the floor, simple past and past participle crossed the floor)

crosses the floor (present singular third-person)
crossing the floor (participle present)
crossed the floor (participle past)
crossed the floor (past)

(UK politics, of a member of a parliament) To vote against one’s own political party in parliament.

Two weeks ago, Mr Davies intimated to Mr Brown that he was ready to cross the floor.

2007 June 27, Philip Webster, Francis Elliott, “How Brown led his latest recruit across the floor”, in Times of London, retrieved 2008-11-09:

(UK politics, informal, of a member of a parliament) To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party.


Trojan War

For the greater part of three thousand years since the date of the Trojan War, the imagination of poets and dramatists has been busy with its story.

1952, Olivia E. Coolidge, The Trojan War, Houghton Mifflin, published 1980, page ix:

The poems of the Epic Cycle are now lost. But what we know about them from ancient evidence is extremely important for our understanding about myth of the Trojan War. The poems of the Epic Cycle share the same mythological tradition with the famous Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in fact the Epic Cycle is even more representative of the Trojan War tradition than the Homeric poems.

2001, Jonathan S. Burgess, “The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle”, in Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2004, page 1:

The Greeks and Romans believed that the Trojan War was both a real event and a pivotal point in world history; Herodotus and Thucydides discussed the Trojan War briefly in the opening pages of their respective books, written in the fifth century BCE.

2013, Eric H. Cline, The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 1:

(Greek mythology) A mythological decade-long war and siege, ending in the destruction of Troy, which, as described in Homer's Iliad, was waged by a coalition of Achaeans (Greeks) led by King Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of the Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan King Priam.


anagnorisis

en-noun

anagnorisis (countable and uncountable, plural anagnorises)

/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɪsɪs/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis), from ἀναγνωρίζειν (anagnōrízein, “to recognise, discover”).

lbor

His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators.

The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.

anagnorisis

moment in the plot when a character makes a critical discovery


anagnorisis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis).

Det tredje ledet, anagnorisis, återuppståndelsen eller igenkännande som vid årsfesterna symboliseras av att trädet med sin nyutspruckna lövprakt bärs in som bevis på att livet ännu en gång återvänt, omtalas ofast enbart i mysteriespelen och ageras inte ut.

1986, Gunilla Domellöf, “Kapitel IV. Karin Boye och prosamodernismen”, in I oss är en mångfald levande, page 221:

The third element, anagnorisis, the resurrection, or recognition, which is symbolized at the annual festivals by the tree being carried in with its newly sprung foliage as evidence that life has once again returned, is most often mentioned only in the mystery plays and is not acted out.

I slutet får vi bevittna hur Fjalar, då han på höjden av sin självtillit får veta sanningen om sina barns öde, når fram till insikt om sin egen identitet. Detta sker genom yttre »anagnorisis», i Hjalmars berättelse, men främst genom inre: Avklädd sin rustning kommer Fjalar till insikt om sin maktlöshet. »Anagnorisis» kommer tematiskt och strukturellt också till uttryck som ett förhållande mellan att se och att inse.

2004, Kjell-Arne Brändström, et al., “Kung Fjalar. Kommentar av Kjell-Arne Brändström”, in Samlade skrifter XII:2, page 294:

In the end, we witness how Fjalar, when at the height of his self-confidence, learns the truth about his children's fate and comes to realize his own identity. This occurs through an outer "anagnorisis," in Hjalmar's narrative, but primarily through inner revelation: Stripped of his armor, Fjalar becomes aware of his powerlessness. "Anagnorisis" thematically and structurally also expresses a relationship between seeing and realizing.


fata

la-proper noun

fāta f (genitive fātae); first declension

fāta (canonical feminine)
fātae (genitive)
fāta (nominative singular)
fātae (nominative plural)
fātae (genitive singular)
fātārum (genitive plural)
fātae (dative singular)
fātābus (dative plural)
fātam (accusative singular)
fātās (accusative plural)
fātā (ablative singular)
fātābus (ablative plural)
fāta (singular vocative)
fātae (plural vocative)
fada (alternative)

From fātum (“destiny, lot, fate”) and fātus (“oracle, prophecy, fate”); derived from verb for (“I speak”) from Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

der

(Greek mythology) Fate; Moira; goddess who controls destiny; divine personification of fate


fata

la-proper noun

fāta n pl (genitive fātōrum); second declension

fāta (canonical neuter plural)
fātōrum (genitive)
fāta (nominative plural)
fātōrum (genitive plural)
fātīs (dative plural)
fāta (accusative plural)
fātīs (ablative plural)
fāta (plural vocative)
fada (alternative)

Vulgar Latin: *Fāta (see there for further descendants)

(Roman mythology) The Fates; Parcae; gods who control destiny; divine personifications of fate


pedagogue

pedagogues (plural)
pædagogue (alternative)
pedagog (alternative)
paedagogue (alternative)

From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogue.

surf

(historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.


chancellor

chancellors (plural)
chanceler (alternative)
chanceller (alternative)
chancellour (alternative)
chancelor (alternative)
chancelour (alternative)
chaunceler (alternative)
chaunceller (alternative)
chauncellor (alternative)
chauncellour (alternative)
chauncelor (alternative)
chauncelour (alternative)

/ˈtʃɑːnsələ/

/ˈt͡ʃænsələ/

Angela Merkel
Frick Collection
Hans Holbein the Younger
Thomas More

From Anglo-Norman or Middle English chaunceler, chanceler, canceler (“chief administrative or executive officer of a ruler; chancellor, secretary; private secretary, scribe; Lord Chancellor of England; officer of the ruler's exchequer; a high administrative or executive officer (for example, a deputy or representative of a bishop; the head of a university)”), from Old French cancelier, chancelier (“chancellor”), from Late Latin cancellārius (“secretary; doorkeeper, porter; usher of a court of law stationed at the bars separating the public from the judges”), from Latin cancellī (plural of cancellus (“grate; bars, barrier; railings”), diminutive of cancer (“grid; barrier”), from Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting an agent of use).
The word was present as Late Old English canceler, cancheler, from Norman cancheler, but was displaced in the 13th century by the Old French and Anglo-Norman forms mentioned above.

refn

From the Frick Collection in New York City, New York, USA.

مُسْتَشَار

[page 111] […] Lord Falkland […] took an Opportunity to tell the King, that He had now a good Opportunity to prefer Mr. Hyde, by making him Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Place of Sir John Colepepper; […] [page 112] He [Colepepper] ſurrendered his Office of Chancellor of the Exchequer: And the next Day Mr. Hyde was ſworn of the Privy-Council, and Knighted, and had his Patents ſealed for that Office.

[1760, Edward, Earl of Clarendon [i.e., Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon], “Part the Second”, in The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Printing-house, →OCLC, pages 111 and 112:

Chancellor Philip Hammond has told the BBC he and other MPs will "find a way" of blocking a no-deal Brexit. […] Mr Hammond is expected to be replaced as chancellor whoever wins the Conservative leadership election later this month.

2019 July 5, “Philip Hammond: MPs will and should Stop No-deal Brexit”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2019-07-08:

Liz Truss has sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as her chancellor and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt ahead of a U-turn on key sections of her disastrous mini-budget, as she launched a desperate attempt to restore her crumbling political authority.

2022 October 14, “Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng before corporation tax U-turn”, in The Guardian:

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer#English

A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.

(UK politics) Ellipsis of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

"Have you agreed on your chancellor, gentlemen?" was the first question of the Judge. The foreman, called in Scotland the chancellor of the jury, usually the man of best rank and estimation among the assizers, stepped forward, and, with a low reverence, delivered to the Court a sealed paper, containing the verdict, […]

1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, pages 285–286:

The verdict must be returned to the Court by the chancellor of the jury, in presence of the accused, and of the whole jury; and, being engrossed in the record, and read aloud, it is then sealed up, in terms of the regulations 1672, No. 9, and deposited with the clerk of Court, never to be opened again but by order of the judges. The verdict, when in writing, is authenticated by the subscriptions of the chancellor and clerk of the jury, and accompanied with a list of the names of the jurors, and a state of the vote of each individual, "whether condemning or assoilzieing;" Regulations 1672, No. 9.

1826, Robert Bell, William Bell, “CRIMINAL PROSECUTION”, in A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for John Anderson & Co. […], and Bell & Bradfute, →OCLC, page 333:

[T]he pursuer moved the Court "for a rule to shew cause why this case should not be ordered to be tried, in respect that the verdict as it appears on the notes of the Judge furnished to the parties, was not declared by the chancellor or foreman of the jury in open Court, and taken down by the clerk of the said Court before the jury was discharged."

1853 July 16, Geo[rge] Dingwall Fordyce (reporter), James Paterson (reporter), William Gillies Tytler (reporter), Frederick Hallard (reporter), “James Mackenzie, Pursuer, v. Dunlop, Wilson and Co., Defenders.”, in Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, [ […] Being a Continuation of The Scottish Jurist.">…


Napoleon

Napoleon (nominative singular)
Napoleonowie (nominative plural)
Napoleona (genitive singular)
Napoleonów (genitive plural)
Napoleonowi (dative singular)
Napoleonom (dative plural)
Napoleona (accusative singular)
Napoleonów (accusative plural)
Napoleonem (instrumental singular)
Napoleonami (instrumental plural)
Napoleonie (locative singular)
Napoleonach (locative plural)
Napoleonie (singular vocative)
Napoleonowie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French Napoléon, from Italian Napoleone.

a male given name, equivalent to English Napoleon


Quirinus

(Roman mythology) An early Roman deity of possibly Sabine origin.


Quirinus

la-proper noun

Quirīnus m sg (genitive Quirīnī); second declension

Quirīnus (canonical masculine singular)
Quirīnī (genitive)
Quirīnus (nominative singular)
Quirīnī (genitive singular)
Quirīnō (dative singular)
Quirīnum (accusative singular)
Quirīnō (ablative singular)
Quirīne (singular vocative)

English: Quirinus

Italian: Quirino

Portuguese: Quirino

From the Sabine town Curēs, or from quirīs (“citizen”). Falsely derived, some say, from curīs (“spear”) and cūria (“court”). See also Quirītēs.

(Roman mythology) of Romulus after his deification; Quirinus


Second Reich

The German Empire from its consolidation in 1871 until the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918.


Third Reich

the Third Reich (canonical)
3rd Reich (alternative)

Partial calque of German Drittes Reich (literally “third empire, third realm”). The first “Reich” in this reckoning is the Holy Roman Empire and the second is the German Empire. The Weimar Republic, although officially called Deutsches Reich as well, was rejected by the National Socialists and therefore not counted in.

partial calque

German Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Weimar Republic

Тре́тий рейх m (Trétij rejx) (various capitalisation is used)


apprise

en-verb

apprise (third-person singular simple present apprises, present participle apprising, simple past and past participle apprised)

apprises (present singular third-person)
apprising (participle present)
apprised (participle past)
apprised (past)
apprise (infinitive)
apprize (alternative)

From Middle English aprisen, apprisen (“to determine or estimate the value of (something), to appraise, evaluate; to regard (something) as important, valuable, or worthy, to esteem, prize; to praise or worship (God)”), and then either:
* from Old French apriser, aprisier (“to appraise, evaluate”), from à (“to”) + prisier, preisier (“to attribute a value to, to appraise, value”) (from Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“(Late Latin) to consider valuable, hold in high regard, to esteem, prize, value; (Medieval Latin) to estimate the worth of, appraise, assess, value”), from pretium + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)); or
* from Old French à pris (“to (put a) price (on)”) (pris (“price; esteem, (positive) reputation”) is derived from Latin pretium).
Pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”). The English word is a doublet of appraise, appreciate, praise, price, and prize.

doublet

Infeftments are alſo extinct, vvhen the Superior adjudgeth or appriſeth from his Vaſſal; for thereby it vvas found, that the Property vvas Conſolidat vvith the Superiority,

1681, James Dalrymple of Stair [i.e., James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair], “Extinction of Infeftments”, in The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, […], 1st part, Edinburgh: […] Heir of Andrew Anderson, […], →OCLC, page 416:

[T]he infeftment of annualrent, being jus sed ignobilius, becomes extinct, if the annualrenter thereupon do apprise the property, and be infeft: and therefore, whoever appriseth for any years of the annualrent, the infeftment thereof, unless it be taken away by satisfaction or redemption, extinguisheth the infeftment of annualrent, without distinction whether the apprising be led for any years belonging to the fiar, liferenter, or any other.

1832, James, Viscount of Stair [i.e., James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair], John S[hank] More, “Title V. Infeftments of Annualrent, where, of Poinding of the Ground, and of Pensions.”, in The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, […], new edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Walker] for Bell & Bradfute, →OCLC, page 387:

(specifically, Scots law) To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.


Caca

(Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth.


agnomen

An additional cognomen given, as an honour, to a Roman citizen.


agnomen

la-noun

agnōmen n (genitive agnōminis); third declension

agnōmen (canonical neuter)
agnōminis (genitive)
agnōmen (nominative singular)
agnōmina (nominative plural)
agnōminis (genitive singular)
agnōminum (genitive plural)
agnōminī (dative singular)
agnōminibus (dative plural)
agnōmen (accusative singular)
agnōmina (accusative plural)
agnōmine (ablative singular)
agnōminibus (ablative plural)
agnōmen (singular vocative)
agnōmina (plural vocative)
adgnōmen (alternative)

→ English: agnomen

→ Portuguese: agnome

→ Spanish: agnombre

From ad- (“to, towards, at”) + nōmen (“name; title”).

A surname or additional name relating to a specific achievement, characteristic or trait; agnomen.


Evropa

Evrópa (canonical feminine)
Евро́па (Cyrillic)
Evropa (nominative singular)
Evrope (genitive singular)
Evropi (dative singular)
Evropu (accusative singular)
Evropo (singular vocative)
Evropi (locative singular)
Evropom (instrumental singular)
Európa (alternative)

(Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus in Greek mythology)


Evropa

Evrọ̑pa (canonical feminine)
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Evrópa (nominative singular)
Evrópe (genitive singular)
Evrópi (dative singular)
Evrópo (accusative singular)
Evrópi (locative singular)
Evrópo (instrumental singular)


Европа

bg-proper noun

Евро́па • (Evrópa) f (relational adjective европе́йски)

Евро́па (canonical)
Evrópa (romanization)
европе́йски (adjective relational)
Евро́па (indefinite singular)

bg-ndecl

Евро́па</n:sg>

Ми́масЕнцела́дТе́тидаДио́наРе́яТита́нЯпе́т

(Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus in Greek mythology)


Европа

head

Европа • (Yevropa) (Arabic spelling يەۋروپا)

Yevropa (romanization)
يەۋروپا (Arabic)
Европа (nominative singular)
Европанын (genitive singular)
Европага (dative singular)
Европаны (accusative singular)
Европада (locative singular)
Европадан (ablative singular)
Европам (first-person nominative singular)
Европамдын (first-person genitive singular)
Европама (dative first-person singular)
Европамды (accusative first-person singular)
Европамда (first-person locative singular)
Европамдан (ablative first-person singular)
Европаң (informal nominative second-person singular)
Европаңдын (genitive informal second-person singular)
Европаңа (dative informal second-person singular)
Европаңды (accusative informal second-person singular)
Европаңда (informal locative second-person singular)
Европаңдан (ablative informal second-person singular)
Европаңыз (formal nominative second-person singular)
Европаңыздын (formal genitive second-person singular)
Европаңызга (dative formal second-person singular)
Европаңызды (accusative formal second-person singular)
Европаңызда (formal locative second-person singular)
Европаңыздан (ablative formal second-person singular)

Borrowed from Russian Евро́па (Jevrópa), from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).


Европа

mk-proper noun

Е́вропа • (Évropa) f (relational adjective е́вропски)

Е́вропа (canonical)
Évropa (romanization)
е́вропски (adjective relational)
Европа (indefinite singular)
Европата (definite singular unspecified)
Европава (definite proximal singular)
Европана (definite distal singular)
Европо (singular vocative)


Европа

ru-proper noun+

европе́йский

Евро́па • (Jevrópa) f anim or f inan (genitive Евро́пы, relational adjective европе́йский)

Евро́па (canonical)
Jevrópa (romanization)
Евро́пы (genitive)
европе́йский (adjective relational)
Евро́па (nominative singular)
Евро́пы (genitive singular)
Евро́пе (dative singular)
Евро́пу (accusative singular)
Евро́пой (instrumental singular)
Евро́пою (instrumental singular)
Евро́пе (prepositional singular)
Евро́па (dated nominative singular)
Евро́пы (dated genitive singular)
Евро́пѣ (dated dative singular)
Евро́пу (accusative dated singular)
Евро́пой (dated instrumental singular)
Евро́пою (dated instrumental singular)
Евро́пѣ (dated prepositional singular)

→ Buryat: Европо (Jevropo)

→ Khakas: Европа (Evropa)

→ Kumyk: Европа (Yewropa)

→ Kyrgyz: Европа (Yevropa)

⇒ Mongolian: Европ (Jevrop)

→ Turkmen: Ýewropa

→ Tuvan: Европа (Evropa)

→ Yakut: Европа (YEvropa)

Inherited from Middle Russian Еѵропа (Jevropa), Европа (Jevropa) and Эѵропа (Evropa) (17th c.), likely through Old Ruthenian from Polish Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē). Displaced earlier forms like Еѵропіа, Европїя etc.

inh+

Аме́рикаСе́верная Аме́рикаЮ́жная Аме́рика


Европа

Евро́па (canonical feminine)
Evrópa (romanization)
Европа (nominative singular)
Европе (genitive singular)
Европи (dative singular)
Европу (accusative singular)
Европо (singular vocative)
Европи (locative singular)
Европом (instrumental singular)
Еуро́па (alternative)

(Bosnia, Serbia, Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus in Greek mythology)


faun

fauns (plural)
faune (alternative)
faunus (alternative)
fawn (alternative)

From Middle English fawn, from Latin faunus.

(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.


faun

fauni (adjective)
faun (nominative singular)
faunowie (nominative plural)
fauny (derogatory nominative plural)
fauna (genitive singular)
faunów (genitive plural)
faunowi (dative singular)
faunom (dative plural)
fauna (accusative singular)
faunów (accusative plural)
faunem (instrumental singular)
faunami (instrumental plural)
faunie (locative singular)
faunach (locative plural)
faunie (singular vocative)
faunowie (plural vocative)
fauny (derogatory plural vocative)

(Roman mythology) faun (woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry)


denier

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French denier, inherited from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dénaire.


Ajax

From Latin Aiāx, from Ancient Greek Αἴας (Aías).

In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...

1995, David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11:

(Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.


Ajax

de-proper noun

Ajax m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ajax' or Ajaxens or (with an article) Ajax, plural Ajaxe)

Ajax' (genitive)
Ajaxens (genitive)
Ajax (genitive)
Ajaxe (plural)


Hebe

From Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē, literally “Youth, Prime of Life”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juventas.


Hebe

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē), from ἥβη (hḗbē).


Hebe

Borrowed from Latin Hēbē, from Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē), from ἥβη (hḗbē, “youth”).

(Greek mythology) Hebe (goddess of youth)


Aba

(Greek mythology) a Thracian naiad nymph


Acropolis

the Acropolis (canonical)
Akropolis (alternative)

/əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀκρόπολις (Akrópolis, “Acropolis”), from ἄκρος (ákros, “highest”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).

bor

The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)


Althea

From Althaia or Althaea of Greek mythology, from Ancient Greek Ἀλθαία (Althaía).

(Greek mythology) an obscure goddess who was the personification of truth


Amor

de-proper noun

Amor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Amors or Amor)

Amors (genitive)
Amor (genitive)
Amor (nominative singular)
Amors (genitive singular)
Amor (genitive singular)
Amor (dative singular)
Amor (accusative singular)

Doch als es morgens tagte, / Mein Kind, wie staunten wir! / Denn zwischen uns saß Amor, / Der blinde Passagier

1827, Heinrich Heine, “Die Heimkehr”, in Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:


Amor

träffas av Amors pilar

be struck by Cupid's arrow (literally "arrows," idiomatic)


Amore

(Roman mythology) Cupid, Eros (the god of love)


Ancient Greece

The Greek-speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.


Apollo

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

‘Blue are the hills that are far away,’ is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man’s fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.


Apollo

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo


Apollo

la-proper noun

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension

Apollō (canonical masculine)
Apollinis (genitive)
Apollōnis (genitive)
Apollō (nominative singular)
Apollinēs (nominative plural)
Apollinis (genitive singular)
Apollōnis (genitive singular)
Apollinum (genitive plural)
Apollinī (dative singular)
Apollōnī (dative singular)
Apollinibus (dative plural)
Apollinem (accusative singular)
Apollōnem (accusative singular)
Apollinēs (accusative plural)
Apolline (ablative singular)
Apollōne (ablative singular)
Apollinibus (ablative plural)
Apollō (singular vocative)
Apollinēs (plural vocative)
Apellō (alternative)

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn). Cognate with Faliscan 𐌀𐌐𐌏𐌋𐌏 (apolo).

Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo

c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni"

Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest


Apollo

Apollo (nominative singular)
Apolla (genitive singular)
Apollina (genitive singular)
Apollowi (dative singular)
Apollinowi (dative singular)
Apolla (accusative singular)
Apollina (accusative singular)
Apollem (instrumental singular)
Apollinem (instrumental singular)
Apollu (locative singular)
Apollinie (locative singular)
Apollu (singular vocative)
Apollinie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo (son of Zeus)


Apollo

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).


Argo

From Latin Argo, from Ancient Greek Ἀργώ (Argṓ), the mythical ship of the Argonauts.

(Greek mythology) The ship in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed on their quest for the Golden Fleece.


Argo

(Greek mythology) Argus (giant with a hundred eyes)

(Greek mythology) Argo (mythical ship of the Argonauts)


Argonaut

/ˈɑːrɡənɔːt/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀργοναύτης (Argonaútēs).

(Greek mythology) One of the members of the Argo who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.


Atlas

en-proper noun

Atlas (countable and uncountable, plural Atlases)

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

der

(Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.


Atlas

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

(Greek mythology) Atlas (mythological giant)


Atlas

Learned borrowing from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

(Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)


Atlas

de-proper noun

Atlas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Atlas', plural Atlasse)

Atlas' (genitive)
Atlasse (plural)
Atlas (nominative singular)
Atlasse (definite nominative plural)
Atlas' (genitive singular)
Atlasse (definite genitive plural)
Atlas (dative singular)
Atlassen (dative definite plural)
Atlas (accusative singular)
Atlasse (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).


Atlas

la-proper noun

Ā̆tlās m (genitive Ā̆tlantis); third declension

Ā̆tlās (canonical masculine)
Ā̆tlantis (genitive)
Ā̆tlās (nominative singular)
Ā̆tlantēs (nominative plural)
Ā̆tlantis (genitive singular)
Ā̆tlantum (genitive plural)
Ā̆tlantī (dative singular)
Ā̆tlantibus (dative plural)
Ā̆tlantem (accusative singular)
Ā̆tlantēs (accusative plural)
Ā̆tlante (ablative singular)
Ā̆tlantibus (ablative plural)
Ā̆tlā (singular vocative)
Ā̆tlantēs (plural vocative)

Portuguese: Atlas

Spanish: Atlas

[ˈäːt̪ɫ̪äːs̠]

[ˈät̪ɫ̪äːs̠]

From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

"tempus, Atla, veniet, tua quo spoliabitur auro

Ovid Metamorphoses with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller. In two volumes, I, books I–VIII, 1951, page 224–225 containing Ovidus' Metamorphoses IV, 644–645

"Atlas, the time will come when your tree will be spoiled of its gold, and he who gets the glory of this spoil will be Jove's son."

arbor, et hunc praedae titulum Iove natus habebit."


Atlas

Atlas (nominative singular)
Atlasa (genitive singular)
Atlasowi (dative singular)
Atlasa (accusative singular)
Atlasem (instrumental singular)
Atlasie (locative singular)
Atlasie (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky)


Atlas

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, literally “The Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from Ἄ (Á, copulative prefix) + τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer, to endure, to bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to support, lift, weigh”).


Atlas

Borrowed from Latin Atlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).


Aura

en-proper noun

Aura (countable and uncountable, plural Auras)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A minor female deity.


Aurora

/ʔaʊ̯ˈɾo.ɾɐ/

Aurora (disambiguation)
Gérard de Lairesse
Manuel Quezon

Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

As faire Aurora in her purple pall, / Out of the East the dawning day doth call […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:

(Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn; equivalent of the Greek Eos. Sister of Luna and Sol.