Thanatos

(Greek mythology) The god of death (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.


Achilles

Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!

1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.

1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1), Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:

In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.

2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153:

(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.


Achilles

From English Achilles, borrowed from Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


Achilles

csb-proper noun

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowi)

(uncountable, Greek mythology) Achilles (mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)


Achilles

la-proper noun

Achillēs m sg (genitive Achillis); third declension

Achillēs (canonical masculine singular)
Achillis (genitive)
Achillēs (nominative singular)
Achillis (genitive singular)
Achillī (dative singular)
Achillem (accusative singular)
Achille (ablative singular)
Achillēs (singular vocative)

[äˈkʰɪlːʲeːs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


Achilles

pl-prop

Achilles m pers (related adjective achillesowy)

achillesowy (adjective)
Achilles (nominative singular)
Achillesowie (nominative plural)
Achillesi (nominative plural)
Achillesa (genitive singular)
Achillesów (genitive plural)
Achillesowi (dative singular)
Achillesom (dative plural)
Achillesa (accusative singular)
Achillesów (accusative plural)
Achillesem (instrumental singular)
Achillesami (instrumental plural)
Achillesie (locative singular)
Achillesach (locative plural)
Achillesie (singular vocative)
Achillesowie (plural vocative)
Achillesi (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Achillēs. Doublet of Achil.


Achilles

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).


Europe

English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)

Scots: Europe

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).


Asia

en-proper noun

Asia (countable and uncountable, plural Asias)

From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from an Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.

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67 Asia
Asia
Asia (mythology)
United Nations Statistics Division

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.


潘

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (潘):
* → Korean: 반(潘) (ban)
* → Vietnamese: Phan (潘)

→ English: Pan, Poon, Pun, Phua

→ Mandarin: ㄆㄨㄣ (pūn) (Taiwanese slang from Hokkien)

→ Tagalog: Pua (via Hokkien)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːn): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 番 (OC *paːl, *paːls, *pʰaːn, *pʰan, *ban).


labyrinth

From Middle English laberynt, laberynthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (labúrinthos, “a maze”).

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Mrs. Churchill liked the interminable labyrinths of the Cyrus and the Cassandra, because she had liked them in the days of her girlhood. Youth identifies itself with the romance; it is the heroic knight, or the lovely lady, of which it reads; it lives amid those fine creations; its sweetest hours are given to dreams which soon "Fade into the light of common day."

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 264–265:

(Greek mythology) A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.

(horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.

A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths

Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.


chaos

chaos (nominative singular)
chaosu (genitive singular)
chaosowi (dative singular)
chaos (accusative singular)
chaosem (instrumental singular)
chaosie (locative singular)
chaosie (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) chaos (unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony)


Paris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).

-æɹɪs (Received Pronunciation, New York City, without the Mary–marry–merry merger)

-ɛɹɪs (General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger)

(Greek mythology) A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.


Paris

de-proper noun

Paris m (proper noun, strong, genitive Paris' or (learned) Paridis or (with an article) Paris)

Paris' (genitive)
Paridis (genitive literary)
Paris (genitive)

From Latin Paris, from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris).


Paris

la-proper noun

Paris m sg (genitive Paridis or Paridos); third declension

Paridis (genitive)
Paridos (genitive)
Paris (nominative singular)
Paridis (genitive singular)
Paridos (genitive singular)
Paridī (dative singular)
Paridem (accusative singular)
Parin (accusative singular)
Paride (ablative singular)
Paris (singular vocative)
Pari (singular vocative)


Paris

sk-proper noun

Paris m pers (genitive singular Parida, declension pattern of chlap)

Parida (genitive singular)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Paris (nominative singular-only)
Parida (genitive singular-only)
Paridovi (dative singular-only)
Parida (accusative singular-only)
Paridovi (locative singular-only)
Paridom (instrumental singular-only)

bor+

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πάρις (Páris)


Paris

(Greek mythology) Paris, the Trojan prince


Nike

From Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess of victory and triumph; Athena's companion.


Nike

de-proper noun

Nike f (proper noun, genitive Nike or (without the article) Nikes)

Nike (genitive)
Nikes (genitive)
Nike (nominative singular)
Nike (genitive singular)
Nikes (genitive singular)
Nike (dative singular)
Nike (accusative singular)


Nike

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).


interpreter

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪɾɚ/

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ/

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə/

From Middle English interpreter, interpretour, etc., from Old French interpreteur, interpreteeur, etc., from Late Latin interpretātōr, from classical Latin interpretātus (“explained, translated”) + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from interpretārī (“to explain, to translate”), from interpres (“go-between, translator”) + -ārī (“to be ~ed”), q.v. In reference to divine emissaries, a calque of Mercury's Latin epithet interpres divum (“go-between of the gods”). In reference to the rhetorical device, a calque of Latin interpretatio. Equivalent to interpret + -er.
Displaced native Old English wealhstod.

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A person or thing that interprets the meaning of something for another, particularly:

(obsolete) Synonym of translator, one who translates various forms of texts.

linguister

colonial contexts, particularly West & Central Africa

(obsolete) Synonym of emissary, particularly in reference to Hermes or angels as messengers between humans and the divine.

Programs written in BASIC are usually run through an interpreter rather than a compiler.

(computing) A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance.

tolk

one who interprets a language — see also dragoman

... one of the foremost interpreters of Beethoven's piano works ...

(music, theater) A performer who presents a piece of art in a distinct style, particularly so as to make older works relevant to their audience.


パン

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).


Larissa

(Greek mythology) A nymph with a local cult near the city of Larissa, Thessaly.


Python

From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
The programming language is named after Monty Python.

Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.

1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11:

It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos.[…]Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.⁴¹³ Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.

2000, Otar Lordkipanidze, Phasis: The River and City in Colchis, page 70:

Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.

2005, M. A. Dwight, Taylor Lewis, Grecian and Roman Mythology, page 183:

(Greek mythology) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.


Acheron

Borrowed from Latin Acherōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀχέρων (Akhérōn), probably Pre-Greek but folk-etymologically said to be from ἄχος (ákhos, “pain, distress”) + ῥέον (rhéon, “stream”).

af

And pull her out of Acheron by the heels

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.

1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234:

Behold! I rise from primal silence / As a storm crushing dismal shores ov Acheron

(Greek mythology) A river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.


Zeus

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús). Doublet of Dyeus and Jove.

(Greek mythology) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.


Zeus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).


Zeus

Diův (adjective)
Zeus (nominative singular)
Dia (genitive singular)
Diovi (dative singular)
Dia (accusative singular)
Die (singular vocative)
Diovi (locative singular)
Diem (instrumental singular)


Zeus

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)


Zeus

From Middle Dutch zeus, from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

(Greek mythology) Zeus (Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)


Zeus

→ Vietnamese: Dớt

→ Persian: زئوس (ze'us)


Zeus

la-proper noun

Zeus m sg (genitive Diōs); third declension

Diōs (genitive)
Zeus (nominative singular)
Dios (genitive singular)
Diī (dative singular)
Dia (accusative singular)
Die (?) (ablative singular)
Zeu (singular vocative)

[d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s̠]

Quis ignorat Persarum religiones, in quibus duo illa numina consecrata sunt, lucis alter, alter tenebrarum Deus? Ejusdem notionis vestigia, quamvis obscura, in Graecorum mythologica apparent, ubi in primis celebrantur Ζεύς et Ἅιδης, alter coeli et lucis, alter orci et tenebrarum Deus.

1830, Simon Karsten, Xenophanis Colophonii Carminum Reliquiae De Parmenidis Philosophia.20

Who does not know of the Persian religions, in which two spirits are worshipped, one a god of light, the other of darkness? Traces of the same idea, although obscured, show up in Greek mythology: in its origins, Zeus and Hades are worshipped, one as a god of heaven and light, the other of the underworld and darkness.


Zeus

Zeus (nominative singular)
Zeusa (genitive singular)
Zeusowi (dative singular)
Zeusa (accusative singular)
Zeusem (instrumental singular)
Zeusie (locative singular)
Zeusie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Zeus. Doublet of Jowisz and Jupiter.

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)


Zeus

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme god of the Greek pantheon)


Zeus

sk-proper noun

Zeus m pers (genitive singular Dia, declension pattern of chlap)

Dia (genitive singular)
chlap (declension-pattern-of)
Zeus (nominative singular-only)
Dia (genitive singular-only)
Diovi (dative singular-only)
Dia (accusative singular-only)
Diovi (locative singular-only)
Diom (instrumental singular-only)


Zeus

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)


nymphe

→ Turkish: nemf

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French nimphe, borrowed from Latin nympha or nymphē (“nymph”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “young woman, nymph”).


nymphe

la-noun

nymphē f (genitive nymphēs); first declension

nymphē (canonical feminine)
nymphēs (genitive)
nymphē (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphēs (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nymphēn (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphē (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nymphē (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”).


hydra

hydra (nominative singular)
hydry (nominative plural)
hydry (genitive singular)
hyder (genitive plural)
hydře (dative singular)
hydrám (dative plural)
hydru (accusative singular)
hydry (accusative plural)
hydro (singular vocative)
hydry (plural vocative)
hydře (locative singular)
hydrách (locative plural)
hydrou (instrumental singular)
hydrami (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra). Doublet of vydra.

bor+

Král nařizoval, aby Herakles zabil hydru, která děsila lidi a ničila kraj kolem města Lernu.

2010, Jana Eislerová, Staré řecké báje a pověsti, Fragment, →ISBN, page 21:

The king ordered Herakles to kill Hydra, which had been frightening people and destroying the land around the city of Lerna.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology, singular only) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads


manticore

/ˈmæntɪˌkɔɹ/

From Latin mantichōras, from Ancient Greek μαρτιχόρας (martikhóras, “man-eater; tiger”), from Old Persian *martyahvārah (“man-eater”), from 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 (m-r-t-i-y /martyaʰ/, “man”).

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Now may I present to you the basilisk?
Please down your goggles if you wish to resist
From the fiery depths of the planet’s core
The never sleeping for want of eating unholy stench of the manticore

2005, “Circus Maximus”, performed by Clutch:

(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.


centaur

From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.


centaur

centaur (nominative singular)
centaury (nominative plural)
centaura (genitive singular)
centaurów (genitive plural)
centaurowi (dative singular)
centaurom (dative plural)
centaura (accusative singular)
centaury (accusative plural)
centaurem (instrumental singular)
centaurami (instrumental plural)
centaurze (locative singular)
centaurach (locative plural)
centaurze (singular vocative)
centaury (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology) centaur (mythical half-man, half-horse)


nympha

la-noun

nympha f (genitive nymphae); first declension

nymphae (genitive)
nympha (nominative singular)
nymphae (nominative plural)
nymphae (genitive singular)
nymphārum (genitive plural)
nymphae (dative singular)
nymphīs (dative plural)
nympham (accusative singular)
nymphās (accusative plural)
nymphā (ablative singular)
nymphīs (ablative plural)
nympha (singular vocative)
nymphae (plural vocative)

Asturian: ninfa

Catalan: nimfa

desctree

Old French: nimphe
French: nymphe
→ Middle Dutch: nymphe
Dutch: nimf
→ Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
English: nymph

Italian: ninfa

Portuguese: ninfa

Romanian: nimfă

Sicilian: ninfa

Spanish: ninfa

Welsh: nymff

Derived from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Compare with Latin lympha.

der+

(Greek mythology) nymph (mythical demigoddess)


nymph

From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.

нимфа

mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit


sphinx

fr-noun

sphinx m (plural sphinx, feminine sphinge)

Borrowed from Latin sphinx f, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).

(Egyptian mythology, Greek mythology) sphinx


cornucopia

en-noun

cornucopia (countable and uncountable, plural cornucopias or cornucopiae or (archaic) cornucopiæ)

cornucopias (plural)
cornucopiae (plural)
cornucopiæ (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia (“mythical horn of plenty”), from cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”).

bor+

Device, an anchor held by a hand from the clouds: behind the anchor are a kind of brackets, in the form of cornucopiæ, croſſed; […]

1786, Typographical Antiquities: or An Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland: […], volume II, London: […] [F]or the Editor, and sold by Mr. T. Payne and Son, […], page 1163:

It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 59:

So far as Swedenborg’s elucidation extends, it is comprised in seven groupings of this family; and, possibly, the Hebraic forms of the several names which are included in them, may at some future period, like so many cornucopiæ of wisdom, yield abundance of precious fruit to the Biblical student.

1849, Elihu Rich, A Biographical Sketch of Emanuel Swedenborg: With an Account of His Works, London: E. Rich, […], page 139:

A head of Trajan, between two cornucopiæ, under which is a winged foot, with a caduceus and a dolphin.

1851, B[ram] Hertz, Catalogue of the Collection of Assyrian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Indian, Peruvian and Mexican Antiquities, London: […], page 46:

On these the details of the cornucopiae resemble those familiar in the Hellenistic world: from the horn, filleted and filled to overflowing with bunches of grapes, […]

1975, Yaʻaḳov Meshorer, Nabataean Coins, Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, page 25:

The three cornucopiae which branch out to hold the candles are apparently unparalleled and this in itself offers some encouragement for regarding the pieces as by Giuseppe, for the majority of his designs seem to have been cast once only (counting for this purpose a pair as a unique item, as with the lower parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum firedogs).

1981, Charles Avery, Studies in European Sculpture, Christie’s, →ISBN, page 66:

There are other mysteries expressed by the bison horn, the Paleolithic original of which the classical cornucopia is a copy: the horn of plenty is the universal vulva from which emerge all the creatures of life, plants, animals, and humans.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 105:

The two cornucopiae carried by the figure likely identify her as Isis, but they also make clear her inanimate status.

2021, Stephanie Pearson, “[The Lure of Egyptian Treasures] Egyptian Gods as Lamp Stands”, in The Triumph and Trade of Egyptian Objects in Rome: Collecting Art in the Ancient Mediterranean, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 69:

(Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

قرن الوفرة

mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink


cornucopia

la-noun

cornūcōpia f (genitive cornūcōpiae); first declension

cornūcōpia (canonical feminine)
cornūcōpiae (genitive)
cornūcōpia (nominative singular)
cornūcōpiae (nominative plural)
cornūcōpiae (genitive singular)
cornūcōpiārum (genitive plural)
cornūcōpiae (dative singular)
cornūcōpiīs (dative plural)
cornūcōpiam (accusative singular)
cornūcōpiās (accusative plural)
cornūcōpiā (ablative singular)
cornūcōpiīs (ablative plural)
cornūcōpia (singular vocative)
cornūcōpiae (plural vocative)

→ English: cornucopia

→ Italian: cornucopia

→ Portuguese: cornucópia

→ Spanish: cornucopia

From cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”)


demon

Anthony the Great
Michelangelo
en:demon
en:demon (disambiguation)

From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.

daimon

now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit

(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.


demon

demon (indefinite nominative singular)
demons (genitive indefinite singular)
demonen (definite nominative singular)
demonens (definite genitive singular)
demoner (indefinite nominative plural)
demoners (genitive indefinite plural)
demonerna (definite nominative plural)
demonernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn).

jävel

used in the sense of being a demon at something

(Greek mythology) a demon (neutral spirit)


Adonis

The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, S. George:

1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun,
A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.

1921, Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance, Chapter X: The Secret of the Grail (1) - The Mysteries,
As Sir J. G. Frazer has before now pointed out, there are parallel and over-lapping forms of this cult, the name of the god, and certain details of the ritual, may differ in different countries, but whether he hails from Babylon, Phrygia, or Phoenicia, whether he be called Tammuz, Attis, or Adonis, the main lines of the story are fixed, and invariable. Always he is young and beautiful, always the beloved of a great goddess; always he is the victim of a tragic and untimely death, a death which entails bitter loss and misfortune upon a mourning world, and which, for the salvation of that world, is followed by a resurrection.

(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.


Adonis

la-proper noun

Adōnis m sg (genitive Adōnidis); third declension

Adōnis (canonical masculine singular)
Adōnidis (genitive)
Adōnis (nominative singular)
Adōnidis (genitive singular)
Adōnis (genitive singular)
Adōnidī (dative singular)
Adōnidem (accusative singular)
Adōnem (accusative singular)
Adōnim (accusative singular)
Adōnin (accusative singular)
Adōnide (ablative singular)
Adōne (ablative singular)
Adōni (singular vocative)

[äˈd̪oːnɪs̠]


Adonis

Ȁdonis (canonical masculine)
А̏донис (Cyrillic)


Adonis

[ʔɐˈd̪oː.n̪ɪs]

Borrowed from Spanish Adonis, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)


panic

en-adj

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

more panic (comparative)
most panic (superlative)

The adjective is borrowed from Middle French panique, a word itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πανικός (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”); Pan, the Greek god of fields and woods, was believed to be the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Adjective sense 3 (“pertaining to or resulting from overpowering fear or fright”) is partly an attributive use of the noun.
The noun is derived from the adjective, while the verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.3 (“to highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show”) is derived from noun sense 4 (“a highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show”).

der

(Greek mythology, archaic) Alternative letter-case form of Panic (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”)


Pluto

From Latin Plūtō, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”). Venetia Burney is often credited as having suggested the name for the celestial body.

bor

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.


Pluto

cs-proper noun

Pluto m anim (related adjective Plutonův or Plutův)

Plutonův (adjective)
Plutův (adjective)
Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutona (genitive singular)
Plutonovi (dative singular)
Plutona (accusative singular)
Plutone (singular vocative)
Plutonovi (locative singular)
Plutonem (instrumental singular)

cs:Pluto (mytologie)
cs:Pluto (trpasličí planeta)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto


Pluto

de-proper noun

Pluto m (proper noun, strong, genitive Plutos or Pluto)

Plutos (genitive)
Pluto (genitive)
Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutos (genitive singular)
Pluto (genitive singular)
Pluto (dative singular)
Pluto (accusative singular)

Learned borrowing from Latin Plūtō, Plūtōn, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).


Pluto

la-proper noun

Plūtō m sg (genitive Plūtōnis); third declension

Plūtō (canonical masculine singular)
Plūtōnis (genitive)
Plūtō (nominative singular)
Plūtōnis (genitive singular)
Plūtōnī (dative singular)
Plūtōnem (accusative singular)
Plūtōne (ablative singular)
Plūtō (singular vocative)

[ˈpɫ̪uːt̪oː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto (god of the underworld)


Uranus

Borrowed from Latin Ūranus, from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”).

(Greek mythology) The Greek god who personified the sky and heavens and fathered the Titans. Roman counterpart: Caelus.


Uranus

de-proper noun

Uranus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Uranus)

Pluto

traditionally; by the IAU founded in 1919 only till 2006


Uranus

la-proper noun

Ūranus m sg (genitive Ūranī); second declension

Ūranus (canonical masculine singular)
Ūranī (genitive)
Ūranus (nominative singular)
Ūranī (genitive singular)
Ūranō (dative singular)
Ūranum (accusative singular)
Ūranō (ablative singular)
Ūrane (singular vocative)
Ūranī (locative singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”)

(Greek mythology) Uranus (god of the sky)


Ulixes

Ulixēs m sg (genitive Ulixis or Ulixī or Ulixeī); third declension

Ulixēs (canonical masculine singular)
Ulixis (genitive)
Ulixī (genitive)
Ulixeī (genitive)
Ulixēs (nominative singular)
Ulixis (genitive singular)
Ulixī (genitive singular)
Ulixeī (genitive singular)
Ulixī (dative singular)
Ulixem (accusative singular)
Ulixēn (accusative singular)
Ulixe (ablative singular)
Ulixēs (singular vocative)

Catalan: Ulisses

English: Ulysses

French: Ulysse

Italian: Ulisse

Old English: Aulixes

Sicilian: Ulissi

Spanish: Ulises

[ʊˈlʲɪks̠eːs̠]

According to Visser, from dialectal (probably Doric) Ancient Greek Οὐλίξης (Oulíxēs, “Odysseus”), itself from a Pre-Greek source tentatively reconstructed by Beekes as *Od/lukʸeu. Compare Etruscan 𐌖𐌈𐌖𐌆𐌄 (uθuze).


Aeneas

From Latin Aenēās, from Ancient Greek Αἰνείας (Aineías).

(Greek mythology) A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.


Aeneas

la-proper noun

Aenēās m sg (genitive Aenēae); first declension

Aenēās (canonical masculine singular)
Aenēae (genitive)
Aenēās (nominative singular)
Aenēae (genitive singular)
Aenēae (dative singular)
Aenēān (accusative singular)
Aenēam (accusative singular)
Aenēā (ablative singular)
Aenēā (singular vocative)

[äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς (Aineíās, Ainéās).

bor

Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς


cyclops

en-noun

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

cyclops (plural)
cyclopes (plural)
cyclopses (plural)

Borrowed from Latin cyclōps, from Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps, “Cyclops”), q.v.

der

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology.


pontifex

sk-noun

pontifex m pers (related adjective pontifikálny)

pontifikálny (adjective)
nominative
pontifex (singular)
pontifikovia (plural)
genitive
pontifika (singular)
pontifikov (plural)
dative
pontifikovi (singular)
pontifikom (plural)
accusative
locative
pontifikoch (plural)
instrumental
pontifikom (singular)
pontifikmi (plural)


Amazon

From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn); perhaps Ionian Greek pronunciation of Old Persian *hamazan- (“warrior”), as the Amazon women were known warriors. A popular folk etymology, of Ancient Greek provenance, claims that the word derives from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μαζός (mazós, “breast”), referencing the belief that Amazons cut off their right breast so that it would not hinder their ability to fire a bow or throw a spear.

When, therefore, one envisions a matriarchy, one should not conjure up visions of a gang of Amazons lopping off breasts and testicles to rule by force of arms.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 149:

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.


aegis

Borrowed from Latin aegis, from Ancient Greek αἰγίς (aigís, “goatskin; shield of Athena”), probably from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“goat”).
The plural form aegides (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/) is borrowed from Latin aegides, from Ancient Greek αἰγῐ́δες (aigídes).

IPA

IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/

покровителство

endorsement, sponsorship — see also endorsement, sponsorship

The goat Amalthea, which had suckled Jove, being dead, that god is said to have covered his buckler with the skin thereof, whence the appellation Aegis, from αιξ, αιγις, a she-goat. Jupiter afterwards restoring the goat to life, covered it with a new skin, and placed it among the stars. This buckler, which was the work of Vulcan, he gave to Minerva, who having killed the Gorgon Medusa, nailed her head to the middle of the Aegis, which henceforth possessed the faculty of converting to stone all who beheld it, as Medusa herself had while alive.

1790, “AEGIS”, in Bell’s New Pantheon; or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods, Heroes, and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity: … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by and for J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

Herodotus, as proof of this origin of Minerva, says, that the Greeks had taken from the Libyan women, the dress and the ægis with which her statues were represented: this dress was of leather: the ægis, as its name implies, was simply a goatskin died red and worn over the shoulders like a mantle: the extremity of it was cut into shreds or tassels, which the lively fancy of the Grecian artists converted into serpents.

1822, James Millingen, Painted Greek Vases, from Collections in Various Countries: […] (Ancient Unedited Monuments; series 1), London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3:

The robe and aegides of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the aegis are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder (ἐρευθεδάνω) and from these goat skins, (ἐχ δὲ τῶν αἰγἑων τουτἑων) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.

1837, F. M. Hubbard, quoting Herodotus, “Article III. An Inquiry into the Commerce of Ancient Egypt.”, in B[ela] B[ates] Edwards, editor, The American Biblical Repository, volume X, number 27, New York, N.Y.: Gould & Newman, publishers and printers, Boston, Mass.: Perkins & Marvin and Crocker & Brewster, Cincinnati, Oh.: Truman & Smith, →OCLC, page 49:

In her right hand Minerva bore a beaming lance, and in her left a buckler, called the Egis. The Egis of Minerva had embossed upon it the head of Medusa.

1849, [Eliza Robbins], “Minerva”, in Elements of Mythology; or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and Romans: […], 11th improved edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and for sale by Hogan & Thompson […], →OCLC, page 57:

Cattle grazed where now is the Forum Romanum, and the Capitol, now glittering with gold, was covered then with brambles; nevertheless a god already dwelt there, even Jupiter himself, whose right hand had oft been seen to shake the aegis and summon the storm-clouds.

1934 November, Theodor Haecker, “Leader and Mission”, in A[rthur] W[esley] Wheen, transl., Virgil, Father of the West (Essays in Order; no. 14), London: Sheed & Ward, →OCLC, page 65:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.


aegis

la-noun

aegis f (genitive aegidos or aegidis); third declension

aegidos (genitive)
aegidis (genitive)
aegis (nominative singular)
aegides (nominative plural)
aegidēs (nominative plural)
aegidos (genitive singular)
aegidis (genitive singular)
aegidum (genitive plural)
aegidī (dative singular)
aegidibus (dative plural)
aegida (accusative singular)
aegidem (accusative singular)
aegidas (accusative plural)
aegidēs (accusative plural)
aegide (ablative singular)
aegidibus (ablative plural)
aegis (singular vocative)
aegi (singular vocative)
aegides (plural vocative)
aegidēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: ègida

English: aegis

French: égide

German: → Ägis, → Ägide
→ Ukrainian: егі́да (ehída)

Italian: egida

→ Polish: egida

Portuguese: égide

Romanian: egidă

Russian: эги́да (egída)

Sicilian: èggida

Spanish: égida

the aegis, or shield. See Aegis; αἰγίς.
of Zeus or Jupiter

… Pallās, prō ducibus nostrīs aegida semper habē.

… Pallas, always hold your aegis before our leaders.
(‘‘Pallas’’ was an epithet for the Greek goddess Athena, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

the aegis, or shield. See Aegis; αἰγίς.
of Athena or Minerva

transferred senses
transferred sense#English

(in the writings of Ovid) the jewelry by which maidens try to conceal their ugliness


Medusa

From Middle English Medusa, Meduse, from Latin Medūsa, from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).

1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201,
On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.

It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.

2000, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion, page 62:

But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's Metamorphoses, Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using Medusa’s head to petrify the monster.

2001, Dennis Berthold, “Melville's Medusas”, in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou, editors, Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997:

(Greek mythology) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.

Medusa (Rubens)
Medusa (disambiguation)
Rubens


Medusa

From Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).


Medusa

la-proper noun

Medūsa f sg (genitive Medūsae); first declension

Medūsa (canonical feminine singular)
Medūsae (genitive)
Medūsa (nominative singular)
Medūsae (genitive singular)
Medūsae (dative singular)
Medūsam (accusative singular)
Medūsā (ablative singular)
Medūsa (singular vocative)

[mɛˈd̪uːs̠ä]


Medusa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).

bor+

(Greek mythology) Medusa (creature with a petrifying gaze)


Charon

Charon
Charon (disambiguation)
Charon (moon)
Edmond Hamilton
NASA

From Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.

coin

(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.


Charon

cs-proper noun

Charon m anim (related adjective Charonův)

Charonův (adjective)
Charon (nominative singular)
Charona (genitive singular)
Charonovi (dative singular)
Charona (accusative singular)
Charone (singular vocative)
Charonovi (locative singular)
Charonem (instrumental singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

bor+

Charon uviděv Aeneáše ozbrojeného připomněl si Heraklea, který též tak přišel a násilně si v podsvětí počínal,[…]

1892, Jan Blokša, “Dante Alighieri a Vergilius Maro”, in Hlídka, volume 9, page 318:

Charon having seen armed Aeneas remembered Herakles, who had also come in such a way and behaved violently in the underworld, […]

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Charón (the ferryman of Hades)


Charon

Charon (nominative singular)
Charoni (nominative plural)
Charony (derogatory nominative plural)
Charona (genitive singular)
Charonów (genitive plural)
Charonowi (dative singular)
Charonom (dative plural)
Charona (accusative singular)
Charonów (accusative plural)
Charonem (instrumental singular)
Charonami (instrumental plural)
Charonie (locative singular)
Charonach (locative plural)
Charonie (singular vocative)
Charoni (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

lbor

(Greek mythology) Charon (ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx)


Charon

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Haron


Hera

Borrowed from Latin Hēra, from Ancient Greek Ἥρᾱ (Hḗrā).

(Greek mythology) The queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage and birth; daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus, mother of Hephaestus, Ares, Hebe, and Enyo.


Hera

is-proper noun

Hera f (proper noun, genitive singular Heru)

Heru (genitive singular)
Hera (indefinite nominative singular)
Heru (accusative indefinite singular)
Heru (dative indefinite singular)
Heru (genitive indefinite singular)


Hera

Hera (nominative)
Heros (genitive)
Herai (dative)
Herą (accusative)
Hera (instrumental)
Heroje (locative)
Hera (vocative)

(Greek mythology) Hera, the queen of the gods and goddess of marriage and birth


Hera

Hera (nominative singular)
Hery (genitive singular)
Herze (dative singular)
Herę (accusative singular)
Herą (instrumental singular)
Herze (locative singular)
Hero (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Hera (queen of the gods, wife of Zeus)


Hera

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).

lbor

(Greek mythology) Hera (goddess of marriage and birth)


Hera

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).


pygmy

From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).

der

Ctesias lived in Persia for several years, as the personal physician of King Ataxerxes II, and would have had contact with travellers to India, and Indian visitors to Persia. He describes dog-headed humans, pygmy men who grow their beards so long that they can be used as clothes, and affirms that it never rains in India.

2015, Sam Miller, A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes:

(Greek mythology) A member of a race of dwarfs.

джудже

a member of a mythological race of dwarfs


Persephone

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(Greek mythology) A minor deity, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and vegetation. Originally named Kore/Core, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades. Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina.


Persephone

la-proper noun

Persephonē f sg (genitive Persephonēs); first declension

Persephonē (canonical feminine singular)
Persephonēs (genitive)
Persephonē (nominative singular)
Persephonēs (genitive singular)
Persephonae (dative singular)
Persephonēn (accusative singular)
Persephonē (ablative singular)
Persephonē (singular vocative)

From the Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(Greek mythology) Persephone (Greek goddess)


Demeter

From Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”).

Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Ceres

(Greek mythology) The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.


Demeter

Demeteřin (adjective)
Demeter (nominative singular)
Demetery (genitive singular)
Demeter (genitive singular)
Demeteře (dative singular)
Demeter (dative singular)
Demeteru (accusative singular)
Demeter (accusative singular)
Demetero (singular vocative)
Demeter (singular vocative)
Demeteře (locative singular)
Demeter (locative singular)
Demeterou (instrumental singular)
Demeter (instrumental singular)

(Greek mythology) Demeter (Greek goddess)


Demeter

(Greek mythology) Demeter (goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone)


Demeter

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr).


Morpheus

Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.


Orion

From Middle English Orioun, from Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn), speculatively from Akkadian 𒌋𒊒𒀭𒈾 (Uru-anna, “heaven's light”), though without any firm evidence.

der

(Greek mythology) A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.


Orion

Orion (nominative singular)
Orion (accusative nominative singular)
Orionin (accusative genitive singular)
Orionin (genitive singular)
Orionia (partitive singular)
Orionissa (inessive singular)
Orionista (elative singular)
Orioniin (illative singular)
Orionilla (adessive singular)
Orionilta (ablative singular)
Orionille (allative singular)
Orionina (essive singular)
Orioniksi (singular translative)
Orionitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Orionini (nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative nominative singular)
Orionini (accusative genitive singular)
Orionini (genitive singular)
Orioniani (partitive singular)
Orionissani (inessive singular)
Orionistani (elative singular)
Orioniini (illative singular)
Orionillani (adessive singular)
Orioniltani (ablative singular)
Orionilleni (allative singular)
Orioninani (essive singular)
Orionikseni (singular translative)
Orionittani (abessive singular)
Orionisi (nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative nominative singular)
Orionisi (accusative genitive singular)
Orionisi (genitive singular)
Orioniasi (partitive singular)
Orionissasi (inessive singular)
Orionistasi (elative singular)
Orioniisi (illative singular)
Orionillasi (adessive singular)
Orioniltasi (ablative singular)
Orionillesi (allative singular)
Orioninasi (essive singular)
Orioniksesi (singular translative)
Orionittasi (abessive singular)
Orionimme (nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative nominative singular)
Orionimme (accusative genitive singular)
Orionimme (genitive singular)
Orioniamme (partitive singular)
Orionissamme (inessive singular)
Orionistamme (elative singular)
Orioniimme (illative singular)
Orionillamme (adessive singular)
Orioniltamme (ablative singular)
Orionillemme (allative singular)
Orioninamme (essive singular)
Orioniksemme (singular translative)
Orionittamme (abessive singular)
Orioninne (nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninne (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninne (genitive singular)
Orionianne (partitive singular)
Orionissanne (inessive singular)
Orionistanne (elative singular)
Orioniinne (illative singular)
Orionillanne (adessive singular)
Orioniltanne (ablative singular)
Orionillenne (allative singular)
Orioninanne (essive singular)
Orioniksenne (singular translative)
Orionittanne (abessive singular)
Orioninsa (nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative nominative singular)
Orioninsa (accusative genitive singular)
Orioninsa (genitive singular)
Orioniaan (partitive singular)
Orioniansa (partitive singular)
Orionissaan (inessive singular)
Orionissansa (inessive singular)
Orionistaan (elative singular)
Orionistansa (elative singular)
Orioniinsa (illative singular)
Orionillaan (adessive singular)
Orionillansa (adessive singular)
Orioniltaan (ablative singular)
Orioniltansa (ablative singular)
Orionilleen (allative singular)
Orionillensa (allative singular)
Orioninaan (essive singular)
Orioninansa (essive singular)
Orionikseen (singular translative)
Orioniksensa (singular translative)
Orionittaan (abessive singular)
Orionittansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὠρῑ́ων (Ōrī́ōn)


Orion

la-proper noun

Ōrīōn m sg (genitive Ōrīōnis); third declension

Ōrīōn (canonical masculine singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive)
Ōrīōn (nominative singular)
Ōrīōnis (genitive singular)
Ōrīōnī (dative singular)
Ōrīōnem (accusative singular)
Ōrīōne (ablative singular)
Ōrīōn (singular vocative)

→ Middle English: Orioun (learned)

English: Orion

→ Portuguese: Orion (learned)

→ Sicilian: Uriuni


Orion

(Greek mythology) Orion (a giant-hunter)


minotaur

/ˈmɪnəˌtɔː(ɹ)/

/ˈmaɪnəˌtɑɹ/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μινώταυρος (Minṓtauros), from Μίνως (Mínōs, “Minos, king of Crete”) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”).

af

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Minotaur

مَنْطُور

monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man


Aphrodite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē). Doublet of Aferdita.

bor+

In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians.

1877, Otto Seemann, The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art, page 65:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea. Her Roman counterpart is Venus.


Aphrodite

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Aphrodite

la-proper noun

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

Aphrodītē (canonical feminine singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive)
Aphrodītē (nominative singular)
Aphrodītēs (genitive singular)
Aphrodītae (dative singular)
Aphrodītēn (accusative singular)
Aphrodītē (ablative singular)
Aphrodītē (singular vocative)

[äpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪eː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


pandemic

The meeting of Venus with Phoebe distinguishes her roles: the business of Venus in her pandemic form is to ensure the immortality of the kinds. Her Garden has the voluptuousness necessary to ensure this, and this is 'the first seminarie / Of all things that are borne to live and die / According to their kindes.' [Quoting from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.]

1967, Frank Kermode, “World Without End or Beginning”, in The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (The Mary Flexner Lectures on the Humanities; 1965), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC; new edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2000, →ISBN, page 76:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology, rare) Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”)


Argus

(Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.


Argus

la-noun

Argus m sg (genitive Argī); second declension

Argī (genitive)
Argus (nominative singular)
Argī (genitive singular)
Argō (dative singular)
Argum (accusative singular)
Argō (ablative singular)
Arge (singular vocative)


Argus

Argus (nominative singular)
Argusa (genitive singular)
Argusowi (dative singular)
Argusa (accusative singular)
Argusem (instrumental singular)
Argusie (locative singular)
Argusie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄργος (Árgos).


nereid

From the stem of Latin Nērēis (“sea-nymph”), from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs), from Νηρεύς (Nēreús, “the sea-god Nereus”).

(Greek mythology) One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.


Europa

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology.
Doublet of Europe.

(Greek mythology) Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.


Europa

From Middle Dutch europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā), Doric form of Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

(Greek mythology) a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus


Europa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

América

Norteamérica/América del Norte, Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur

(Greek mythology) Europa (woman seduced by Zeus)


Europa

From Middle High German Eurōpā, borrowed from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

(Greek mythology) Europa (a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)


Europa

it:52 Europa
it:Europa
it:Europa (Oceanina)
it:Europa (astronomia)
it:Europa (figlia di Agenore)
it:Europa (natante)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (consort of Zeus, daughter of Agenor)

(mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)


Europa

la-proper noun

Eurōpa f sg (genitive Eurōpae); first declension

Eurōpa (canonical feminine singular)
Eurōpae (genitive)
Eurōpa (nominative singular)
Eurōpae (genitive singular)
Eurōpae (dative singular)
Eurōpam (accusative singular)
Eurōpā (ablative singular)
Eurōpa (singular vocative)

Catalan: Europa

Italian: Europa

→ Sicilian: Europa

→ Turkish: Avrupa

Old French:

Middle French:

French: Europe

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: Europa, Eyropa
Fala: Europa
Galician: Europa
Portuguese: Europa
→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)
→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa
→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

Old Spanish:

Spanish: Europa

Sicilian: Aurupa

Bulgarian: Европа (Evropa)

Mandarin: 歐羅巴／欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā)

Middle Dutch: europa

Dutch: Europa (see there for further descendants)

Middle English: Europe
English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)
Scots: Europe

Middle High German: Eurōpā
German: Europa

Romanian: Europa

Russian: Европа (Jevropa)

Borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa); cognate with Attic Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

la:52 Europa
la:Europa
la:Europa (mythologia)
la:Europa (satelles)

(Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Phoenician king Agenor who was abducted by Jupiter and carried to Crete)


Europa

europejski (adjective)
Europa (nominative singular)
Europy (genitive singular)
Europie (dative singular)
Europę (accusative singular)
Europą (instrumental singular)
Europie (locative singular)
Europo (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

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


Europa

→ Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)

→ Hunsrik: Ëuropa

→ Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)

(Greek mythology) Europa (Phoenician princess)


Europa

Borrowed from Latin Eurōpa. Doublet of Sicilian Aurupa.


Europa

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Eudojanña


Europa

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

Europe, the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent, north of Africa and west of Asia


paean

Brill
Charles Scribner's Sons
National Roman Museum
Phidias

From Latin paeān (“a hymn, especially a victory hymn, to Apollo or another god”), from Ancient Greek παιᾱ́ν (paiā́n, “a chant or song, especially a thanksgiving or victory hymn, to Apollo under the name Παιᾱ́ν (Paiā́n)”), from the phrase Ἰὼ Παιᾱ́ν (Iṑ Paiā́n, “O Paean!, Thanks to Paean!”). According to Homer, Paián or Paean was the name of the physician of the gods; its further etymology is unclear. It has been suggested that Παιᾱ́ν is derived from *παιάϝων (*paiáwōn, “one who heals illnesses through magic”), from *παῖϝα (*paîwa), *παϝία (*pawía, “to blow”), related to παίω (paíō, “to hit, strike”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pēu-, *pyu-, *pū- (“to hit; to cut”)), or from παύω (paúō, “to bring to an end; to abate, to stop”) (from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)), or that it may be a Pre-Greek word.
Compare Middle French and French paean (also French péan), Italian peana, Portuguese peã, péan.

der

a chant or song, especially a thanksgiving or victory hymn, to Apollo under the name <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">Παιᾱ́ν</i> (Paiā́n)

cog

In the mean time I am going to that part, whence I think it convenient for the battle to begin; and, as I paſs, ſhall consider how things are with reſpect to ourſelves. When I come there, and we are juſt ready to engage, I ſhall begin the Pœan;^([sic]) and do you follow.

1773, W[illiam] Cooke, “The Life of Cyrus the Great”, in The Way to the Temple of True Honor and Fame by the Paths of Heroic Virtue: Exemplified in the Most Entertaining Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of both Sexes: On the Plain Laid down by Sir William Temple in His Essay of Heroic Virtue. In Four Volumes, volume II, Devizes, Wiltshire: Printed and sold by T. Burrough, bookseller; sold also by L[ockyer] Davis, over against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn, London, →OCLC, page 64:

Oh, happy ſoldier! had thy worth been try'd, / In pious daring, on thy country's ſide! / Oh, had thy ſword Iberian battles known, / Or purple with Cantabrian ſlaughter grown; / How had thy name in deathleſs annals ſhone! / But now no Roman Pæan ſhalt thou ſing, / Nor peaceful triumphs to thy country bring, / […] Oh, hapleſs victor thou! oh, vainly brave! / How haſt thou fought, to make thyſelf a ſlave!

1795, Lucan, “The Pharsalia of Lucan”, in Nicholas Rowe, transl., The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert Anderson, M.D., volume XII, London: Printed for John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Co. Edinburgh, →OCLC, book VI, page 797, column 1:

The pæans were songs, of which the tune and words expressed courage and confidence. […] Pæans were sung, not only when there was a hope of being able, by the help of the gods, to overcome a great and imminent danger, but when the danger was happily past; they were songs of hope and confidence as well as of thanksgiving for victory and safety.

1847, K[arl] O[tfried] Müller, “Earliest Popular Songs”, in George Cornwall [i.e., Cornewall] Lewis, transl., History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the Period of Isocrates. Translated from the German Ms. of K. O. Müller, Professor in the University of Gottingen (Library of Useful Knowledge), new corr. edition, London: Robert Baldwin, 47, Paternoster Row [published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge], →OCLC, pages 19–20:

(Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.


Charybdis

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

(Greek mythology) A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.


chimera

monolith

antonym(s) of “anything composed of very disparate parts”

Variant of Middle English chimere, chymere, & chymera under renewed Latin influence from the 16th century, from French chimère, from Latin Chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira, “fire-breathing mythological monster, fire-spewing Lycian or Cilician mountain”), from χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”, from χίμαρος (khímaros, “male goat”) + -α (-a)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-. In reference to the fish, directly from Latin Chimaera, used by Linnaeus. In reference to organisms with distinct areas of different genetic makeups, a calque of German Chimäre, used by Hans Winkler in 1907.

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...beestis clepid chymeres, that han a part of ech beest, and suche ben not, no but oonly in opynyoun...

1382, John Purvey, Bible, Prologue, p. 31

Bellerophon was commanded to destroy this monster, and with the assistance of the flying horse, Pegasus, he slew the chimera.

1860, E. Cust, “The Chimeras: An Attempt to Show that the Compound Animals of the Assyrian Marbles are Representations of those Erected by Solomon and Jeroboam (Read 1st and 8th December, 1859.)”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, volume XII, Liverpool: Adam Holden, →OCLC, page 99:

The game includes a bunch of chimeras, with the lion heads shooting fire and the snake tails whipping around trying to bite the player.

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.


hermetic

en-adj

hermetic (comparative more hermetic, superlative most hermetic)

more hermetic (comparative)
most hermetic (superlative)

From Medieval Latin hermeticus, irregular derivation of Hermes Trismegistus, the god and mythological alchemist, said to possess a magic ability to seal treasure chests so that nothing could access their contents.

(chiefly capitalized, Greek mythology) Pertaining to ancient Greek Olympian God Hermes


Sisyphean

From Sisyphus, from Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos). Sisyphus was a Greek mythological figure who was doomed to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill in Hades, only to have it roll back down again.


Scylla

From Latin Scylla, from Ancient Greek Σκύλλα (Skúlla).

(Greek mythology) A personification of said rock as a ravenous monster.

Ah cease rash Youth! desist e'er 'tis too late, / Fear the just Gods, and think of Scylla′s Fate!

1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III:

(Greek mythology) A princess, daughter of King Nisos of Megara, who fell in love with King Minos and betrayed her city to him.


Scylla

de Charybde en Scylla


Scylla

la-proper noun

Scylla f sg (genitive Scyllae); first declension

Scyllae (genitive)
Scylla (nominative singular)
Scyllae (genitive singular)
Scyllae (dative singular)
Scyllam (accusative singular)
Scyllā (ablative singular)
Scylla (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Scylla (a ravenous monster)


Pegasus

From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.

Пегас

in Ancient Greek or other European contexts

(Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.

vernal equinoctial
vernal equinox#English

(astronomy) A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.


Pegasus

(originally Greek mythology, fantasy, occasionally proscribed) Any winged horse; pterippus.

Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.

2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:

(historical) A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.


Pegasus

Pēgasus m sg (genitive Pēgasī); second declension

Pēgasus (canonical masculine singular)
Pēgasī (genitive)
Pēgasus (nominative singular)
Pēgasī (genitive singular)
Pēgasō (dative singular)
Pēgasum (accusative singular)
Pēgasō (ablative singular)
Pēgase (singular vocative)

[ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]

[ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]


Bacchanalia

From Latin Bacchānālia (“feast of Bacchus”), plural of Bacchānal (“a place devoted to Bacchus”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

(Greek mythology) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.


Tartarus

From Latin Tartarus, from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

[…] them with Fire and hoſtile Arms / Fearleſs aſſault, and to the brow of Heav'n / Purſuing, drive them out from God and bliſs, / Into thir place of puniſhment, the Gulf / Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide / His fiery Chaos to receave thir fall.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 50–55:

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.


Tartarus

Tartarus m sg (genitive Tartarī); second declension

Tartarī (genitive)
Tartarus (nominative singular)
Tartarī (genitive singular)
Tartarō (dative singular)
Tartarum (accusative singular)
Tartarō (ablative singular)
Tartare (singular vocative)

Catalan: Tàrtar

→ English: Tartarus

French: Tartare

[ˈt̪ärt̪ärʊs̠]

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Tartarus (hell, part of the underworld)


Ares

From Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).

(Greek mythology) The Greek god of war, considered equivalent to the Roman Mars and usually described as a son of Zeus and Hera, companion of Eris and Enyo, and by Aphrodite father of Deimos and Phobos.


Ares

Borrowed from Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Ares

de-proper noun

Ares m (proper noun, strong, genitive Ares')

(Greek mythology) Ares (Greek god of war)


Ares

la-proper noun

Arēs m sg (genitive Aris); third declension

Arēs (canonical masculine singular)
Aris (genitive)
Arēs (nominative singular)
Aris (genitive singular)
Arī (dative singular)
Arem (accusative singular)
Are (ablative singular)
Arēs (singular vocative)

Catalan: Ares

English: Ares

French: Arès

Galician: Ares

Italian: Ares

Portuguese: Ares

Romanian: Ares

Spanish: Ares

(Greek mythology) Ares, Mars in Greek or literary contexts


Ares

Ares (nominative singular)
Aresa (genitive singular)
Aresowi (dative singular)
Aresa (accusative singular)
Aresem (instrumental singular)
Aresie (locative singular)
Aresie (singular vocative)


Ares

Learned borrowing from Latin Arēs, from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Ares

Ȃres (canonical masculine)
А̑рес (Cyrillic)


Ares

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).


Jason

From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”). The Jason mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 17:5-9, Romans 16:21) is probably a Greek rendering of Joshua.

I know he will be glad of our success: / We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.

(Greek mythology) The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias.


Jason

From English Jason, from the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”).

(Greek mythology) Jason; the leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias


Jason

From the Ancient Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), from ἰάομαι (iáomai, “I heal”).


Lucifer

Lūcifer m sg (genitive Lūciferī); second declension

Lūcifer (canonical masculine singular)
Lūciferī (genitive)
Lūcifer (nominative singular)
Lūciferī (genitive singular)
Lūciferō (dative singular)
Lūciferum (accusative singular)
Lūciferō (ablative singular)
Lūcifer (singular vocative)

Aromanian: lutseafir

Romanian: Luceafăr

→ Catalan: Llucifer, lucífer

→ French: Lucifer

→ English: luciferous, Lucifer

→ Italian: lucifero, Lucifero

desc

→ Polish: lucyfer, Lucyfer, lucyper, Lucyper

→ Portuguese: lucífero, Lúcifer

→ Romanian: Lucifer

→ Spanish: lucífero, Lucifer, Luzbel

→ German: Luzifer

[ˈɫ̪uːkɪfɛr]

From lūx + -fer, calque of Ancient Greek Φωσφόρος (Phōsphóros).

cal

(Greek mythology) Lucifer, the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx


Hades

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Hades.wav

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.

(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.


Hades

Hades (nominative singular)
Hadesa (genitive singular)
Hadesowi (dative singular)
Hadesa (accusative singular)
Hadesem (instrumental singular)
Hadesie (locative singular)
Hadesie (singular vocative)


Hades

Hades (nominative singular)
Hadesu (genitive singular)
Hadesowi (dative singular)
Hades (accusative singular)
Hadesem (instrumental singular)
Hadesie (locative singular)
Hadesie (singular vocative)


Hades

Learned borrowing from Latin Hades, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).

(Greek mythology) Hades (god of the underworld)

(Greek mythology) Hades (the underworld, the domain of Hades)


Hades

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hā́idēs).


Asclepius

Borrowed from Latin Asclēpius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιός (Asklēpiós).

We found religious medicine in the Homeric poems, and there was no century without healing cults. The cult of Asclepius was by no means the only one, but, for reasons that will be discussed later, it dominated the scene and set a pattern for the cults of other healing deities.

1961, Henry E. Sigerist, “A History of Medicine, Volume II: Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine”, in Paperback, Oxford University Press, published 1987, page 44:

The temple of Asclepius is located just inside the north wall (Fig. 5) and is referred to by Pausanias (p. 34), who notes that the site was a place of refreshment in summer.

2002, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology, Liturgical Press, page 186:

The story of Tiber Island is similar: in 293 BC, the inhabitants of Rome started to fall sick and die from an unknown disease, and the city fathers sent an expedition to Epidaurus in Greece to retrieve one of the snakes sacred to Asclepius (Greek Asklepiós, Aesculapius in Latin), god of medicine and healing, thus bringing the god to Rome. The story told by Livy was that as the ship carrying this snake came up the Tiber, the snake escaped and swam to the island. The Romans immediately concluded that Asclepius wished to dwell there (it would appear that clever Asclepius had immediately recognised an excellent place of quarantine), and built a temple to the god on the island.

2015, Paula Landart, Finding Ancient Rome: Walks in the City, E-Book, page 16:

(Greek mythology) A Greek mythological deity, the god of doctors, medicine and healing; a son of Apollo and the Thessalian princess Coronis, husband to the goddess Epione and father of the Asclepiades; identified with the Roman god Aesculapius.

阿斯克勒庇俄斯

Āsīkèlēibì'ésī


Oedipus

From the Latin Oedipus, from the Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, “swollen foot”).

der

(Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.


Oedipus

la-proper noun

Oedipūs or Oedipus m sg (variously declined, genitive Oedipodos or Oedipodis or Oedipī); third declension, second declension

Oedipūs (canonical)
Oedipus (canonical masculine singular)
Oedipodos (genitive)
Oedipodis (genitive)
Oedipī (genitive)
Oedipūs (nominative singular)
Oedipus (nominative singular)
Oedipodos (genitive singular)
Oedipodis (genitive singular)
Oedipī (genitive singular)
Oedipodī (dative singular)
Oedipō (dative singular)
Oedipoda (accusative singular)
Oedipodem (accusative singular)
Oedipum (accusative singular)
Oedipode (ablative singular)
Oedipō (ablative singular)
Oedipūs (singular vocative)
Oedipe (singular vocative)

From Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, apparently from οἰδάω (oidáō, “to swell”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)).

der

(Greek mythology) King of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta.


Khronos

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Cronus

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Chronos


Cronus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos), possibly from the Ancient Greek κραίνω (kraínō, “to rule or command”).

der

The deal is: You post a photo from 10 years ago and one from now. It’s like viewing a painting of Cronus eating his children, but online.

2019 January 16, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Go Ahead, Post the Stupid Photo of Yourself From 10 Years Ago”, in The Atlantic:

(Greek mythology) The youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.


Chronos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χρόνος (Khrónos), from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”)

lbor

(Greek mythology) The personification of time.


Chronos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χρόνος (Khrónos).

(Greek mythology) Chronos, Chronus (personification)


Dionysus

Via Latin Dionȳsus, from Ancient Greek Διόνῡσος (Diónūsos).

All hail slain and risen God / All hail Dionysus / Come blessed Dionysus, various nam'd, bull-fac'd / Begot from the thunder, Bacchus fam'd

(Greek mythology) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".


Dionysus

la-proper noun

Dionȳsus m sg (genitive Dionȳsī); second declension

Dionȳsus (canonical masculine singular)
Dionȳsī (genitive)
Dionȳsus (nominative singular)
Dionȳsī (genitive singular)
Dionȳsō (dative singular)
Dionȳsum (accusative singular)
Dionȳsō (ablative singular)
Dionȳse (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Dionysus, a Greek god.


Artemis

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis). Further etymology is uncertain.

(Greek mythology) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)


Artemis

Artemis (nominative singular)
Artemis (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiin (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiin (genitive singular)
Artemista (partitive singular)
Artemiissa (inessive singular)
Artemiista (elative singular)
Artemiiseen (illative singular)
Artemiilla (adessive singular)
Artemiilta (ablative singular)
Artemiille (allative singular)
Artemiina (essive singular)
Artemiiksi (singular translative)
Artemiitta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Artemiini (nominative singular)
Artemiini (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiini (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiini (genitive singular)
Artemistani (partitive singular)
Artemiissani (inessive singular)
Artemiistani (elative singular)
Artemiiseeni (illative singular)
Artemiillani (adessive singular)
Artemiiltani (ablative singular)
Artemiilleni (allative singular)
Artemiinani (essive singular)
Artemiikseni (singular translative)
Artemiittani (abessive singular)
Artemiisi (nominative singular)
Artemiisi (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiisi (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiisi (genitive singular)
Artemistasi (partitive singular)
Artemiissasi (inessive singular)
Artemiistasi (elative singular)
Artemiiseesi (illative singular)
Artemiillasi (adessive singular)
Artemiiltasi (ablative singular)
Artemiillesi (allative singular)
Artemiinasi (essive singular)
Artemiiksesi (singular translative)
Artemiittasi (abessive singular)
Artemiimme (nominative singular)
Artemiimme (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiimme (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiimme (genitive singular)
Artemistamme (partitive singular)
Artemiissamme (inessive singular)
Artemiistamme (elative singular)
Artemiiseemme (illative singular)
Artemiillamme (adessive singular)
Artemiiltamme (ablative singular)
Artemiillemme (allative singular)
Artemiinamme (essive singular)
Artemiiksemme (singular translative)
Artemiittamme (abessive singular)
Artemiinne (nominative singular)
Artemiinne (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiinne (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiinne (genitive singular)
Artemistanne (partitive singular)
Artemiissanne (inessive singular)
Artemiistanne (elative singular)
Artemiiseenne (illative singular)
Artemiillanne (adessive singular)
Artemiiltanne (ablative singular)
Artemiillenne (allative singular)
Artemiinanne (essive singular)
Artemiiksenne (singular translative)
Artemiittanne (abessive singular)
Artemiinsa (nominative singular)
Artemiinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiinsa (genitive singular)
Artemistaan (partitive singular)
Artemistansa (partitive singular)
Artemiissaan (inessive singular)
Artemiissansa (inessive singular)
Artemiistaan (elative singular)
Artemiistansa (elative singular)
Artemiiseensa (illative singular)
Artemiillaan (adessive singular)
Artemiillansa (adessive singular)
Artemiiltaan (ablative singular)
Artemiiltansa (ablative singular)
Artemiilleen (allative singular)
Artemiillensa (allative singular)
Artemiinaan (essive singular)
Artemiinansa (essive singular)
Artemiikseen (singular translative)
Artemiiksensa (singular translative)
Artemiittaan (abessive singular)
Artemiittansa (abessive singular)
Artemis (nominative singular)
Artemis (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksen (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksen (genitive singular)
Artemista (partitive singular)
Artemiksessa (inessive singular)
Artemiksesta (elative singular)
Artemikseen (illative singular)
Artemiksella (adessive singular)
Artemikselta (ablative singular)
Artemikselle (allative singular)
Artemiksena (essive singular)
Artemikseksi (singular translative)
Artemiksetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Artemikseni (nominative singular)
Artemikseni (accusative nominative singular)
Artemikseni (accusative genitive singular)
Artemikseni (genitive singular)
Artemistani (partitive singular)
Artemiksessani (inessive singular)
Artemiksestani (elative singular)
Artemikseeni (illative singular)
Artemiksellani (adessive singular)
Artemikseltani (ablative singular)
Artemikselleni (allative singular)
Artemiksenani (essive singular)
Artemiksekseni (singular translative)
Artemiksettani (abessive singular)
Artemiksesi (nominative singular)
Artemiksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksesi (genitive singular)
Artemistasi (partitive singular)
Artemiksessasi (inessive singular)
Artemiksestasi (elative singular)
Artemikseesi (illative singular)
Artemiksellasi (adessive singular)
Artemikseltasi (ablative singular)
Artemiksellesi (allative singular)
Artemiksenasi (essive singular)
Artemikseksesi (singular translative)
Artemiksettasi (abessive singular)
Artemiksemme (nominative singular)
Artemiksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksemme (genitive singular)
Artemistamme (partitive singular)
Artemiksessamme (inessive singular)
Artemiksestamme (elative singular)
Artemikseemme (illative singular)
Artemiksellamme (adessive singular)
Artemikseltamme (ablative singular)
Artemiksellemme (allative singular)
Artemiksenamme (essive singular)
Artemikseksemme (singular translative)
Artemiksettamme (abessive singular)
Artemiksenne (nominative singular)
Artemiksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksenne (genitive singular)
Artemistanne (partitive singular)
Artemiksessanne (inessive singular)
Artemiksestanne (elative singular)
Artemikseenne (illative singular)
Artemiksellanne (adessive singular)
Artemikseltanne (ablative singular)
Artemiksellenne (allative singular)
Artemiksenanne (essive singular)
Artemikseksenne (singular translative)
Artemiksettanne (abessive singular)
Artemiksensa (nominative singular)
Artemiksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Artemiksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Artemiksensa (genitive singular)
Artemistaan (partitive singular)
Artemistansa (partitive singular)
Artemiksessaan (inessive singular)
Artemiksessansa (inessive singular)
Artemiksestaan (elative singular)
Artemiksestansa (elative singular)
Artemikseensa (illative singular)
Artemiksellaan (adessive singular)
Artemiksellansa (adessive singular)
Artemikseltaan (ablative singular)
Artemikseltansa (ablative singular)
Artemikselleen (allative singular)
Artemiksellensa (allative singular)
Artemiksenaan (essive singular)
Artemiksenansa (essive singular)
Artemiksekseen (singular translative)
Artemikseksensa (singular translative)
Artemiksettaan (abessive singular)
Artemiksettansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis)


Artemis

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis).


Clio

(Greek mythology) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.


Clio

la-proper noun

Clīō f sg (genitive Clīūs); fourth declension

Clīō (canonical feminine singular)
Clīūs (genitive)
Clīō (nominative singular)
Clīūs (genitive singular)
Clīō (dative singular)
Clīō (accusative singular)
Clīō (ablative singular)
Clīō (singular vocative)

Translingual: Clio (generic name)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ).

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
the Muse of history and epic poetry

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
a Nereid

(Greek mythology) Clio, three figures:
an Oceanid


Clio

(Greek mythology) Clio (the Muse of history and heroic poetry)


Athena

Borrowed from Latin Athena, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).

(Greek mythology) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.


Athena

From Ancient Greek Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē), Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).


Athena

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).


Ζεύς

grc-proper noun

Ζεύς • (Zeús) m (genitive Διός); third declension

Zeús (romanization)
Διός (genitive)
ὁ Ζεύς (nominative singular)
τοῦ Δῐός (genitive singular)
Ζηνός (genitive singular)
τῷ Δῐῐ́ (dative singular)
Ζηνῐ́ (dative singular)
τὸν Δῐ́ᾰ (accusative singular)
Ζῆνᾰ (accusative singular)
Ζεῦ (singular vocative)

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→ Old Armenian: Զեւս (Zews)
Armenian: Զևս (Zews)

→ Classical Syriac: ܙܘܣ (zews)

→ Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus)

→ English: Zeus

Georgian: ზევსი (zevsi)

Greek: Ζευς (Zefs), Δίας (Días)

→ Latin: Zeus

→ Old Church Slavonic: Ꙁеѵсъ (Zeüsŭ)

→ Russian: Зевс (Zevs)

→ Messapic: 𐌆𐌉𐌑 (zis)

→ Arabic: زُوس (zūs)

From Proto-Hellenic *Dzéus, related to Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀺 (di-wo /diwos/); from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognate with Sanskrit द्यु (dyú), Latin Iovis (and *Iu- in Iuppiter), Old English Tīw, Hittite 𒅆𒍑 (sius).

Παῦε λέγων, μὰ τὸν Δία


Perseus

Latin from the Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús).

(Greek mythology) The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae.


Perseus

Perseus (nominative singular)
Perseus (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksen (genitive singular)
Perseusta (partitive singular)
Perseuksessa (inessive singular)
Perseuksesta (elative singular)
Perseukseen (illative singular)
Perseuksella (adessive singular)
Perseukselta (ablative singular)
Perseukselle (allative singular)
Perseuksena (essive singular)
Perseukseksi (singular translative)
Perseuksetta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Perseukseni (nominative singular)
Perseukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Perseukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Perseukseni (genitive singular)
Perseustani (partitive singular)
Perseuksessani (inessive singular)
Perseuksestani (elative singular)
Perseukseeni (illative singular)
Perseuksellani (adessive singular)
Perseukseltani (ablative singular)
Perseukselleni (allative singular)
Perseuksenani (essive singular)
Perseuksekseni (singular translative)
Perseuksettani (abessive singular)
Perseuksesi (nominative singular)
Perseuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksesi (genitive singular)
Perseustasi (partitive singular)
Perseuksessasi (inessive singular)
Perseuksestasi (elative singular)
Perseukseesi (illative singular)
Perseuksellasi (adessive singular)
Perseukseltasi (ablative singular)
Perseuksellesi (allative singular)
Perseuksenasi (essive singular)
Perseukseksesi (singular translative)
Perseuksettasi (abessive singular)
Perseuksemme (nominative singular)
Perseuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksemme (genitive singular)
Perseustamme (partitive singular)
Perseuksessamme (inessive singular)
Perseuksestamme (elative singular)
Perseukseemme (illative singular)
Perseuksellamme (adessive singular)
Perseukseltamme (ablative singular)
Perseuksellemme (allative singular)
Perseuksenamme (essive singular)
Perseukseksemme (singular translative)
Perseuksettamme (abessive singular)
Perseuksenne (nominative singular)
Perseuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksenne (genitive singular)
Perseustanne (partitive singular)
Perseuksessanne (inessive singular)
Perseuksestanne (elative singular)
Perseukseenne (illative singular)
Perseuksellanne (adessive singular)
Perseukseltanne (ablative singular)
Perseuksellenne (allative singular)
Perseuksenanne (essive singular)
Perseukseksenne (singular translative)
Perseuksettanne (abessive singular)
Perseuksensa (nominative singular)
Perseuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Perseuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Perseuksensa (genitive singular)
Perseustaan (partitive singular)
Perseustansa (partitive singular)
Perseuksessaan (inessive singular)
Perseuksessansa (inessive singular)
Perseuksestaan (elative singular)
Perseuksestansa (elative singular)
Perseukseensa (illative singular)
Perseuksellaan (adessive singular)
Perseuksellansa (adessive singular)
Perseukseltaan (ablative singular)
Perseukseltansa (ablative singular)
Perseukselleen (allative singular)
Perseuksellensa (allative singular)
Perseuksenaan (essive singular)
Perseuksenansa (essive singular)
Perseuksekseen (singular translative)
Perseukseksensa (singular translative)
Perseuksettaan (abessive singular)
Perseuksettansa (abessive singular)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús)


Perseus

la-proper noun

Perseus m sg (variously declined, genitive Perseos or Perseī); third declension, second declension

Perseos (genitive)
Perseī (genitive)
Perse͡us (nominative singular)
Perseos (genitive singular)
Perseī (genitive singular)
Perseō (dative singular)
Persea (accusative singular)
Perseum (accusative singular)
Perseō (ablative singular)
Perse͡u (singular vocative)

(Greek mythology) Perseus (son of Jupiter and Danae, killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda)


Selene

From the Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, proper noun), from σέλας (sélas, “light”).

der

Balancing Arria is the union of Selene and Endymion. In the center of the main panel Selene descends from her chariot, whose horses are held by a nymph, to join Endymion, who lies to the right.

1999, Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, page 43:

In the other, more famous story, the moon goddess Selene fell in love with him^([Endymion]) while he was asleep.

2005, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, volume 4, page 473:

This fragmentary front panel of a sarcophagus preserves two episodes from the story of Endymion and Selene. Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a beautiful young mortal.

2010, J. Paul Getty Trust, Kenneth Lapatin, Karol Wight, editors, The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection, 2nd edition, page 169:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of the Moon.


Selene

Borrowed from Latin Selēnē, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).

(Greek mythology) Selene (goddess of the moon)


Thalia

From Ancient Greek Θαλία (Thalía) or Θάλεια (Tháleia); from Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “flourish, to be verdant”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.

(Greek mythology) One of the three Graces/Charites.


siren

From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles. Doublet of serin.

Now give ear to what I'm about to say to you , and a god himself will bring it before your mind . First , you will come to the Sirens . These beings enthrall all men who arrive before them . Whoever draws near without knowledge and ...

2008 October 7, Homer, The Odyssey, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 278:

(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.


siren

siren (indefinite nominative singular)
sirens (genitive indefinite singular)
sirenen (definite nominative singular)
sirenens (definite genitive singular)
sirener (indefinite nominative plural)
sireners (genitive indefinite plural)
sirenerna (definite nominative plural)
sirenernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


Lethe

From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).

(Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.

No wonder these mortal Folks have so many Complaints, […] if they were dead now, and to be settled here for ever, they'd be damn'd before they'd make such a Rout come over—“But care, I suppose, is thirsty; and till they have drench’d themselves with Lethe, there will be no quiet among ’em” however, I’ll e’en to work; and so, friend Æsop, and brother Mercury, good bye to ye.

1740, David Garrick, Lethe: or Aesop in the Shade, published 1782:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains / One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

A well-fed man is not driven to drink by the craving that torments the hungry; and the comfortable do not crave for the boon of forgetfulness. Gin is the only Lethe of the miserable.

1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:

When we have done penance, and are purified, and have drunk of the fountain of Lethe and bathed in the fountain of Eunoe, the mistress of our soul raises us to the Paradise of Heaven.

1891, Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”, in Intentions:

oblivion n.: Lethe. In Greek mythology, Lethe (pronounced LEEthee) is one of the several rivers of Hades. Those who drink from it experience complete forgetfulness. Today it is used to refer to one in an oblivious or forgetful state.

2015, Peter E. Meltzer, The Thinker's Thesaurus, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

(Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.


Lethe

la-proper noun

Lēthē f sg (genitive Lēthēs); first declension

Lēthē (canonical feminine singular)
Lēthēs (genitive)
Lēthē (nominative singular)
Lēthēs (genitive singular)
Lēthae (dative singular)
Lēthēn (accusative singular)
Lēthē (ablative singular)
Lēthē (singular vocative)
Lēthae (locative singular)

[ˈɫ̪eːt̪ʰeː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).

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(Greek mythology) the river Lethe, the river of oblivion


Metis

From Ancient Greek Μῆτις (Mêtis) from Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “wisdom”).

(Greek mythology) A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena


Typhon

(Greek mythology) The most powerful and feared of all Greek monsters, having the head, arms, and torso of a man, and his bottom half consisting of countless dragons or serpents. Some stories also say that his hands ended in serpents and that he bears 100 heads. He is shrouded in giant wings, his eyes blaze a white fire, and his arms reach towards the stars.

Athanasius Kircher
Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Typhon


Eris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρις (Éris), from ἔρις (éris, “strife”).
See also Eris (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia and Eris (dwarf planet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pedia

According to Homer, the Trojan war is, above all, an affair of the gods. It is about Eris, a sister of the god of war Ares, and about Eros, not directly named by Homer, but who in the figure of Aphrodite, the god of love, plays a central role on the side of the Trojans. Eris is the one who divides gods, mortals, and things from each other; Eros is the one who brings them together.

1992, Samuel Ijsseling, “Eros and Eris: The Trojan War and Heidegger on the Essence of Truth”, in Paul van Tongeren, Paul Sars, Chris Bremmers, Koen Boey, editors, Eros and Eris: Contributions to a Hermeneutical Phenomenology Liber Amicorum for Adriaan Peperzak, Kluwer Academic, page 2:

1993, Herman Parret, The Aesthetics of Communication: Pragmatics and Beyond, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 18,
Eris, "the Strife with the violent heart", one reads in Hesiod's Theogony, is a child of the Night, and "Hateful Struggle gave birth to painful Distress and Distraction and Famine and tearful Sorrow; also Wars and Battles and Murders and Slaughters; also Feuds and Lying Words and Angry Words".

According to Newport, no specific bowling alley can claim to be the site of the birth of the Discordian movement. It evolved at several different bowling alleys. This revelation came as a devastating disappointment to your humble author, who—in the course of writing this book—had planned a grand religious pilgrimage to this envisioned holy site, where I would snap sacred photos of "The Brunswick Shrine," and perhaps even fall to my knees before this fabled Mecca of Discordianism, bowing to the Goddess Eris.

2003, Adam Gorightly, The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture, Paraview Press, page 58:

And yet Erisianism should not be treated frivolously. Greg Hill told me his experiences with Eris had been quite profound. Although it started as an atheistic joke, his perceptions began to change.

2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, Penguin, page 351:

(Greek mythology) The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;

The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;
(religion, Discordianism) the same figure as principal deity of Discordianism, regarded as the goddess of disorder.


Eris

Eridin (adjective)
Eris (nominative singular)
Eridy (genitive singular)
Eridě (dative singular)
Eridu (accusative singular)
Erido (singular vocative)
Eridě (locative singular)
Eridou (instrumental singular)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρις (Éris).

Ve svatební síni se shromáždili všichni nebešťané kromě Eridy, bohyně sváru. Svatebčané se chtěli nerušeně radovat […] Proto Eridu nepozvali, neboť kam ona vkročí, tam vznikají spory a hádky. Eris jim však urážku neodpustila.

2014, Rudolf Mertlík, Příběhy Odysseovy, Praha: Albatros, →ISBN, page 9:

All the heaven-borns besides Eris gathered in the wedding hall. The wedding guests did not want to be disturb while rejoicing […] That was why they had not invited Eris, because there arise quarrels and conflicts where she enters. However, Eris did not forgive them the offence.

(Greek mythology) Eris, the goddess of discord, confusion, and strife


Eris

(Greek mythology) Eris (Greek goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War)


satyr

From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
male variation of nymphs

(Greek mythology) A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.


satyr

nl-noun

satyr m (plural satyrs, diminutive satyrtje n)

satyrs (plural)
satyrtje (diminutive neuter)

Ultimately from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) satyr, faun


satyr

satyr (nominative singular)
satyrowie (nominative plural)
satyra (genitive singular)
satyrów (genitive plural)
satyrowi (dative singular)
satyrom (dative plural)
satyra (accusative singular)
satyrów (accusative plural)
satyrem (instrumental singular)
satyrami (instrumental plural)
satyrze (locative singular)
satyrach (locative plural)
satyrze (singular vocative)
satyrowie (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).


satyr

satyr (indefinite nominative singular)
satyrs (genitive indefinite singular)
satyren (definite nominative singular)
satyrens (definite genitive singular)
satyrer (indefinite nominative plural)
satyrers (genitive indefinite plural)
satyrerna (definite nominative plural)
satyrernas (definite genitive plural)


Irene

Borrowed from French Irène, from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”), name of a goddess of peace, of early Christian saints, and of an 8th-century Byzantine empress. Doublet of Eirini.

(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ; equivalent to the Roman goddess Pax.


Irene

From English Irene, borrowed from French Irène, from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”). Also from Irenea.

(Greek mythology) Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ