harpy

Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυια (Hárpuia, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “I snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.

harpía

fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman

Both table and provisions vanish'd quite,
With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.

1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

(mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.


hob

From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, an Old French [Term?] diminutive of Robert), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare hobgoblin; see robin.

From elves, hobs, and fairies, […] Defend us, good Heaven!

1610–1616, John Fletcher, “Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene vi:

(obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.


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

Europă (accusative indefinite nominative)
Europa (accusative definite nominative)
Europe (indefinite)
Europei (definite)
Europă (vocative)
Europo (vocative)


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


lar

lar (nominative singular)
lary (nominative plural)
lara (genitive singular)
larów (genitive plural)
larowi (dative singular)
larom (dative plural)
lara (accusative singular)
lary (accusative plural)
larem (instrumental singular)
larami (instrumental plural)
larze (locative singular)
larach (locative plural)
larze (singular vocative)
lary (plural vocative)

(Roman mythology, chiefly in the plural) lar (household god, particularly overseeing the family itself)


coca

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

(mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature


raj

raj (nominative singular)
raje (nominative plural)
raju (genitive singular)
rajów (genitive plural)
rajowi (dative singular)
rajom (dative plural)
raj (accusative singular)
raje (accusative plural)
rajem (instrumental singular)
rajami (instrumental plural)
raju (locative singular)
rajach (locative plural)
raju (singular vocative)
raje (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rajь. Doublet of rebus.

wrota raju

istny raj

raj utracony

wygnanie z raju

raje podatkowe


raj

rȃj (canonical masculine)
ра̑ј (Cyrillic)
rȃj (nominative singular)
ràjevi (nominative plural)
raja (genitive singular)
rajeva (genitive plural)
raju (dative singular)
rajevima (dative plural)
raj (accusative singular)
rajeve (accusative plural)
raju (singular vocative)
rajevi (plural vocative)
raju (locative singular)
rajevima (locative plural)
rajem (instrumental singular)
rajevima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rajь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *rā́ˀjus (“heaven”).


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.


Borrowed from Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).

(mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)


Charybdis

From Ancient Greek Χάρυβδις (Khárubdis).

I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.

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


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

cog

Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.

(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.


damnation

en-noun

damnation (countable and uncountable, plural damnations)

From Middle English dampnacioun, from Old French dampnacion, from Latin damnatio.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

проклятие

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.


damnation

Oh damnation! The window doesn't shut!

Expressing annoyance or disappointment; damn; dammit.


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.

af

...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.

Chimera

A voice had called him forth to think in solitude—a voice he durst not resist, the awful one of the future. It fell on John's heart like the mutter of approaching desolation. He heard it coming on, as the spell-bound in a hideous dream await, wordless and shivering, the progress of some chimera monster, whose grasp is to crush and destroy.

1853, “the O’Hara Family” [pseudonym; John Banim], chapter XV, in The Nowlans, London: Simms and M‘Intyre, Paternoster Row; and Donegall Street, Belfast, →OCLC, page 142:

The Magophonia was essentially the eruption of a long-simmering animosity between the pārsās (who revered Ahura Mazdā) and the Median magi (who believed in the supremacy of Mithra and Apam Napāt). A vivid expression of this animosity is displayed on the door jambs of Persepolis, where Darius is killing with a dagger a chimera monster with a scorpion tail.

2014, Abolala Soudavar, “Appendix II – From the Avesta to Sufi Treatises: A Standard Literary Technique”, in Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood Ideal to Religion’s Adversary, Houston, Tx.: Abolala Soudavar, →ISBN, page 359:

(mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.

khimaira

any similarly fantastic creature formed of parts from different animals


chimera

From Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira).

chimaera, a kind of shark of the genus Chimaera


berserk

berserk (nominative singular)
berserkowie (nominative plural)
berserka (genitive singular)
berserków (genitive plural)
berserkowi (dative singular)
berserkom (dative plural)
berserka (accusative singular)
berserków (accusative plural)
berserkiem (instrumental singular)
berserkami (instrumental plural)
berserku (locative singular)
berserkach (locative plural)
berserku (singular vocative)
berserkowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Old Norse berserkr.

lbor

(historical, Norse mythology) berserker (Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy)


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


fain

en-verb

fain (third-person singular simple present fains, present participle faining, simple past and past participle fained)

fains (present singular third-person)
faining (participle present)
fained (participle past)
fained (past)
fain (infinitive)

From Middle English fainen (“to be glad or joyful, rejoice; to make happy, gladden; to welcome; of an animal: to show happiness, as by wagging the tail; to act fawningly or flatteringly”), from Old English fæġnian (“to be glad, rejoice; to celebrate; to be delighted with, applaud; to wish for”), from Proto-West Germanic *faginōn (“to be glad, rejoice; to make glad, gladden”), from Proto-Germanic *faginōną (“to be glad, rejoice”), from *faganaz (“glad”): see further at etymology 1. Doublet of fawn.

inh

(Germanic paganism) To celebrate or worship; specifically, to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót (“ceremonial offering”).

juhlia

(Germanic paganism) to celebrate or worship; to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót — see also celebrate, worship


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay

1565, Arthur Golding (tr.), The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ouidius Nasos worke intitled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, The Fovrthe Booke:

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11:

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.

(specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)

teg

[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.

1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:

Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]

1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:

Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.

1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:

Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]

1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

(specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.

[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:

Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:

Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.

1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:

Satan. The great diuell. / Pvg. The leſſe diuell.

1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, “The Persons of the Play”, in The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 93:

In Iohn Mileſius any man may reade / Of Diuels in Sarmatia honored, / Call'd Kottri, or Kibaldi; ſuch as vvee / Pugs and Hob-goblins call.

1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Ninth Tractat: The Angell”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 574:

This is your Buſineſs Good Pug Robin, / And your Diverſion, dull Dry Bobbing: / T' intice Fanaticks in the Dirt, / And vvaſh 'em clean in Ditches for't.

1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “Canto I”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Simon Miller, […], →OCLC, page 82:

(obsolete) A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.


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.


victory

en-noun

victory (countable and uncountable, plural victories)

→ Maori: wikitōriatanga

The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye.
The interjection is derived from the noun.
cognates
* French victoire
* Italian vittoria
* Portuguese vitoria
* Spanish victoria
* Romanian victorie

nb...

victorye, viktori, vitorie, vittori, vittorie, vyctory, vyktorye, (Kent) fictorie, fyctorye, (Northern England) wictori, wictorie, wictorrie

suffix

snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory

All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon: […] And The Chronicle of the Drum. […], London: Hugh Cunningham, […], →OCLC, page 63:

(Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”)


myth

From Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “word, humour, companion, speech, account, rumour, fable”). Attested in English since 1830. Doublet of mythos.

bor

Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED)


Scylla

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

I have never yet been able to steer my lovers through the Scylla of presence, or the Charybdis of absence.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:

between Scylla and Charybdis
between Scylla and Charybdis

A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.

(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.

(astronomy) The main belt asteroid 155 Scylla.


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]


sprite

→ Japanese: スプライト (supuraito)

→ Russian: спрайт (sprajt)

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.

doublet

He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.

1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence:

(mythology) Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:

дух

a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition

An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.


Sterculius

(Roman mythology) The god of manure or fertilizer.


leech

From Middle English leche (“physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), from Proto-West Germanic *lākī, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz (“doctor”), of disputed origin, but usually thought to be connected with Proto-Celtic (compare Old Irish líaig (“charmer, exorcist, physician”)) and Serbo-Croatian ljèkār, Polish lekarz (“physician, doctor”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lētza (“physician”), Old Saxon lāki (“physician”), Old High German lāhhi (“doctor, healer”), Danish læge (“doctor, surgeon”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis, “physician”).

cog

Their functions are threefold, those of the medicine-man (the leech, or healer by supernatural means); of the soothsayer (the prophet through communion with the invisible world); and of the priest, especially in his capacity as exorcist

1900, Augustus Henry Keane, Man, Past and Present, Cambridge: The University Press:

In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.

1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine 3 (4)

"Leech?" "Not another doctor".

2003, Brian Froud, Ari Berk, The Runes of Elfland, Pavillion Books, →ISBN, page 22:

There are many kinds of "Leech" or "healer" as there are healing techniques, some are more powerful than others and some are very specific to certain illnesses and complaints; some use potions and unguents, others crystals and stones, others galdr and some work their healing from within the hidden realms themselves.

2004, Runic John, The Book of Seidr, Capall Bann Publishing, →ISBN, page 282:


Santa Claus

Borrowed from Dutch Sinterklaas (“Saint Nicholas”).

bor+

Last Monday the Anniversary of St. Nicholas, otherwise called St. A Claus, was celebrated at Protestant-Hall.

1773 December 26, New York Gazette, p. 3

The noted St. Nicholas, vulgarly called Santaclaus—of all the saints in the kalendar the most venerated by true hollanders, and their unsophisticated descendants.

Here, too, the winter festivals are just commencing; and the toy-shops are full of dolls and gew-gaws for the Bifana, who acts here the same comedy for children that Santiclaus does in America.

1828 November, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to his mother from Italy

This is one of the developments Karl Marx failed to predict. Had he foreseen it he might have expired in guffaws, rolling in the aisle of the British Museum Library amid the notes for Das Kapital, that bearded Santa Claus of the revolution who slipped the unwanted gift of communism down the world's chimneys.

1937 August, Lawrence Martin, "The Odyssey of a Bogeyman", Esquire, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 39

Emmeline: Oh Richard, you can't know everything. Only God knows everything.
Richard: God—He can't find us any better than Santa Claus.

1980, Douglas Day Stewart, The Blue Lagoon:

By 1900, department-store Santa Clauses were common – lodged in grottoes, cottages, and workshops or on thrones, they presided over a never-ending stream of children.

2005, Gerry Bowler, “Santa the Adman”, in Santa Claus: A Biography, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 142:

(folklore) A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.

Christkind

Christmas; different figure with same role


人魚

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (人魚):
* → Japanese: 人魚(にんぎょ) (ningyo)
* → Korean: 인어(人魚) (ineo)
* → Vietnamese: nhân ngư (人魚)

/jɐn²¹ jyː²¹/

/n̠ʲin²² ɦy⁴⁴/

/zən²² ɦy⁴⁴/

/jɐn²¹ jyː²¹/

/n̠ʲin²² ɦy⁴⁴/

/zən²² ɦy⁴⁴/


人魚

人魚姫

伝説では、彼女は人魚だったと言われる。

Densetsu de wa, kanojo wa ningyo datta to iwareru.

1999 March 27, “恍(こう)惚(こつ)の人魚(マーメイド) [Enchanting Mermaid]”, in Vol.2, Konami:

A beautiful mermaid who lures seafarers before drowning them.

海を航海する者を誘惑しておぼれさせる、美しい人魚。

Umi o kōkai suru mono o yūwaku shite oboresaseru, utsukushii ningyo.

人魚構文

人魚構文 にんぎょこうぶん


ichneumon

From Latin ichneumōn, from Ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων (ikhneúmōn, “tracker”), from ἴχνος (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).

der

(mythology) a legendary animal, which kills crocodiles and dragons


ichneumon

la-noun

ichneumōn m (genitive ichneumonis); third declension

ichneumōn (canonical masculine)
ichneumonis (genitive)
ichneumōn (nominative singular)
ichneumonēs (nominative plural)
ichneumonis (genitive singular)
ichneumonum (genitive plural)
ichneumonī (dative singular)
ichneumonibus (dative plural)
ichneumonem (accusative singular)
ichneumonēs (accusative plural)
ichneumone (ablative singular)
ichneumonibus (ablative plural)
ichneumōn (singular vocative)
ichneumonēs (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων (ikhneúmōn, “tracker”), from ἴχνος (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).

(mythology) a legendary animal, which kills crocodiles


mythical

en-adj

mythical (comparative more mythical, superlative most mythical)

more mythical (comparative)
most mythical (superlative)

From Latin mȳthicos + -al;; by surface analysis, myth + -ical.


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.


Sheol

Borrowed from Hebrew שְׁאוֹל, שְׁאֹל (sheól, “abode of the dead, underworld, netherworld, etc.”).

bor

Hebrew שְׁאוֹל

(Old Testament) The realm of the dead, the common grave of mankind, Hell. In older English translations of the Bible, notably the Authorized Version or King James Bible, this word sheol is translated inconsistently and variously as grave (31 times), pit (3 times) or hell (31 times: e.g., De. 32:22; 2Sa. 22:6; Job 11:8; Ps. 9:17).


Tupi

→ Portuguese: Tupi

a mythological figure said to be the ancestor of all Tupian peoples


Odin

→ Chinese: 奧丁／奥丁 (Àodīng)

→ Japanese: オーディン

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Óðinn (whence Icelandic Óðinn, Norwegian Nynorsk Oden), akin to Old High German Wodan and Old English Wōden. From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“to be excited”). Compare Old Norse óðr (“rage”) and Dutch woede (“rage”) and woeden (“to rage”), Irish fáidh, Latin vātēs. Doublet of Woden and Wotan. Related to English wode.

der

interpretatio germanica
interpretatio germanica

(Norse mythology and paganism) A major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.


Odin

de-proper noun

Odin m (proper noun, strong, genitive Odins or Odin)

Odins (genitive)
Odin (genitive)
Odin (nominative singular)
Odins (genitive singular)
Odin (genitive singular)
Odin (dative singular)
Odin (accusative singular)


Odin

Danish Odin; learned borrowing from Old Norse Óðinn, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz.


Odin

From Old Norse Óðinn, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz.

Odin var ein stor her-mann og var mykje vidfarin, og lagde mange rike under seg.

1900, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Steinar Schjøtt, Kongesogur, page 7:

Odin was a great military man, well-traveled, and conquered many kingdoms.

(Midlandsnormalen, Norse mythology) alternative form of Oden (“Odin”)


Odin

(Norse mythology) Odin (the supreme god)


Jove

From Middle English Joves, from Latin Iuppiter, Iovis, from Proto-Italic *djowe-, ablative case of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Dyeus and Zeus.

BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove’s roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]

1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:

(Roman mythology) Jupiter, god of the sky.


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

la-proper noun

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)


pantheon

(mythology) All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.


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).


Arvak

(Norse mythology) One of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.

Arvak

one of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun


Arvak

(Norse mythology) Arvak (one of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun)


Baal

en-proper noun

Baal (countable and uncountable, plural Baals or Baalim)

From Late Latin Baal (as in the Vulgate) and Ancient Greek Βάαλ (Báal); from Hebrew בַּעַל (bá`al, “lord, husband, owner”), Phoenician 𐤁𐤏𐤋 (bʿl, “lord, master, owner”) and Ugaritic 𐎁𐎓𐎍 (baʿlu, “lord, owner”), all from Proto-Semitic *baʿl- (“owner, lord, husband”).

der

(mythology, biblical) A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.

(mythology, biblical, sometimes lowercase) Various other Baalim, understood as distinct patron gods or as local patron aspects the great god Baal.


Baal

Baal (nominative singular)
Baala (genitive singular)
Baalowi (dative singular)
Baala (accusative singular)
Baalem (instrumental singular)
Baalu (locative singular)
Baalu (singular vocative)

(mythology, biblical) Baal (storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons)


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”).


daemon

A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).

2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, page 46,
On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.⁸⁸ On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons.


Sedna

Borrowed from Inuktitut Sitna.
The dwarf planet is named after the goddess.

Sedna began to enjoy keeping all the sea creatures away from the humans by tucking them into her now miles-long hair.

2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 87:

(mythology, Inuit mythology) The Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals.


Sedna

Sedna (nominative singular)
Sedny (genitive singular)
Sednie (dative singular)
Sednę (accusative singular)
Sedną (instrumental singular)
Sednie (locative singular)
Sedno (singular vocative)

(Inuit mythology) Sedna (Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals)


Lucifer

la-proper noun

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

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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.

In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.

(specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.


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


laminak

Basque folklore is full of references to a type of creature called the lamiñak, who, as we have seen, are the female counterparts of the cromlech-building Maide.

1989, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 17, page 282:

She smiled, remembering the Basque story Zak had told her about the laminaks — little people who live in caves in the mountains and come into the house during the night, […]

1991, Patricia Edwards, Sweet Promised Land, page 233:

A kind of fairy in Basque mythology, related to the Little People in Celtic lore.


necromancy

en-noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

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νεκρομαντεία

And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.

1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.

1652, Gaule The Magastromancer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic
the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...

There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...

Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.


Oedipus

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

(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”)).

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(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”).

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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.


Odinism

Heathenry, Germanic neopaganism, especially a variety devoted to the Norse pantheon.


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)


troll

Partly:
* from Middle English trol (“demon (?); sorcerer (?)”) [and other forms], from Old Norse trǫll (“conjurer, mage; witch”), from Proto-Germanic *truzlą (“supernatural being; demon, fiend; giant; monster”), probably from *trudaną (“to step on; to tread”) + *-ilą (suffix forming agent nouns); and
* borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål troll, Swedish troll, or Danish trold, from Old Norse trǫll (see above).
Doublet of droll and trow.
cognates
* Danish fortrylle (“to bewitch”), trylle (“to conjure”)
* Icelandic tröll
* Middle High German trol, trolle (“spook, wraith; ogre, monster”)
* Norwegian fortrylle (“to bewitch”), trylle (“to conjure”)
* Swedish trolla (“to conjure”)

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He followed their advice, and rode through a rye-field, where the Trolls were unable to follow him, but in their exasperation cried after him, "The red cock shall crow over thy dwelling." And behold! his house stood in a blaze.

1851, Benjamin Thorpe, “Norwegian Traditions. [The Girl at the Sæter.]”, in Northern Mythology, […], volumes II (Scandinavian Popular Traditions and Superstitions), London: Edward Lumley, […], →OCLC, page 7:

The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,—a kind of goblin men, with vast power of work and skilful production,—divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths, and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver.

1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Ability”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, page 81:

The bear got so angry that he rushed at the trolls and scratched them all over, while Peter took the other handspike and hammered away at them as if he wanted to beat their brains out. The trolls had to clear out at last, but Peter stayed and enjoyed himself with all the Christmas fare the whole week. After that the trolls were not heard of there for many years.

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Peter Gynt”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 150:

In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves, hints as elusive as the phantom heroes in the Saxon poems, and as unforgettable.

1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, “The Anglo-Saxon Herbals”, in The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, page 3:

(originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.

طْرُول

giant supernatural being; grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges


troll

From Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-.


troll

troll (inflammatory poster on the Internet)


troll

trollet (definite singular)
troll (indefinite plural)
trolla (definite plural)
trollene (definite plural)

From Old Norse trǫll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-.


troll

trollet (definite singular)
troll (indefinite plural)
trolla (definite plural)

a troll (a (often large) grotesque humanoid creature that lives in the forest or the mountain)


troll

troll (nominative singular)
trolle (nominative plural)
trolla (genitive singular)
trolli (genitive plural)
trollowi (dative singular)
trollom (dative plural)
trolla (accusative singular)
trolle (accusative plural)
trollem (instrumental singular)
trollami (instrumental plural)
trollu (locative singular)
trollach (locative plural)
trollu (singular vocative)
trolle (plural vocative)

(European folklore, Norse mythology) troll (grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges)


troll

troll (indefinite nominative singular)
trolls (genitive indefinite singular)
trollet (definite nominative singular)
trollets (definite genitive singular)
troll (indefinite nominative plural)
trolls (genitive indefinite plural)
trollen (definite nominative plural)
trollens (definite genitive plural)

När trollmor har lagt sina elva små troll, och bundit fast dom i svansen, då sjunger hon sakta för [de] elva små trollen, de vackraste ord hon känner: ho aj aj aj aj buff, ho aj aj aj aj buff, ho aj aj aj aj buff, buff, ho aj aj aj aj buff.

1943, Margit Holmberg (lyrics and music), “Trollmors vaggsång [Mother troll's lullaby]”:

When mother troll has put her eleven little trolls to bed, and tied them up by their tails [tail], then she slowly sings to the eleven little trolls, the most beautiful words she knows: ho ay ay ay ay buff, ho ay ay ay ay buff, ho ay ay ay ay buff, buff, ho ay ay ay ay buff.


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).


Varuna

(astronomy) A Kuiper belt object, once thought to be possibly a dwarf planet.


genius

en-noun

genius (countable and uncountable, plural geniuses or genii)

From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.

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and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy

1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “the unseen genius of the wood”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:

We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.

1715, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:

An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]

1866, Frederick F. Wyman, From Calcutta to the Snowy Range, page 330:

(countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.


Saint Nicholas

No more passion play / On St. Nicholas avenue / I believe in St. Nicholas / It's a different type of Santa Claus

2004, “Good Friday”, in La maison de mon rêve, performed by Cocorosie:

Santa Claus; a figure derived from traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas who is said to bring Christmas presents to children on Christmas Day.


sikiö

sikiö (nominative singular)
sikiöt (nominative plural)
sikiö (accusative nominative singular)
sikiöt (accusative nominative plural)
sikiön (accusative genitive singular)
sikiöt (accusative genitive plural)
sikiön (genitive singular)
sikiöiden (genitive plural)
sikiöitten (genitive plural)
sikiötä (partitive singular)
sikiöitä (partitive plural)
sikiössä (inessive singular)
sikiöissä (inessive plural)
sikiöstä (elative singular)
sikiöistä (elative plural)
sikiöön (illative singular)
sikiöihin (illative plural)
sikiöllä (adessive singular)
sikiöillä (adessive plural)
sikiöltä (ablative singular)
sikiöiltä (ablative plural)
sikiölle (allative singular)
sikiöille (allative plural)
sikiönä (essive singular)
sikiöinä (essive plural)
sikiöksi (singular translative)
sikiöiksi (plural translative)
sikiöttä (abessive singular)
sikiöittä (abessive plural)
sikiöin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
sikiöni (nominative singular)
sikiöni (nominative plural)
sikiöni (accusative nominative singular)
sikiöni (accusative nominative plural)
sikiöni (accusative genitive singular)
sikiöni (accusative genitive plural)
sikiöni (genitive singular)
sikiöideni (genitive plural)
sikiöitteni (genitive plural)
sikiötäni (partitive singular)
sikiöitäni (partitive plural)
sikiössäni (inessive singular)
sikiöissäni (inessive plural)
sikiöstäni (elative singular)
sikiöistäni (elative plural)
sikiööni (illative singular)
sikiöihini (illative plural)
sikiölläni (adessive singular)
sikiöilläni (adessive plural)
sikiöltäni (ablative singular)
sikiöiltäni (ablative plural)
sikiölleni (allative singular)
sikiöilleni (allative plural)
sikiönäni (essive singular)
sikiöinäni (essive plural)
sikiökseni (singular translative)
sikiöikseni (plural translative)
sikiöttäni (abessive singular)
sikiöittäni (abessive plural)
sikiöineni (comitative plural)
sikiösi (nominative singular)
sikiösi (nominative plural)
sikiösi (accusative nominative singular)
sikiösi (accusative nominative plural)
sikiösi (accusative genitive singular)
sikiösi (accusative genitive plural)
sikiösi (genitive singular)
sikiöidesi (genitive plural)
sikiöittesi (genitive plural)
sikiötäsi (partitive singular)
sikiöitäsi (partitive plural)
sikiössäsi (inessive singular)
sikiöissäsi (inessive plural)
sikiöstäsi (elative singular)
sikiöistäsi (elative plural)
sikiöösi (illative singular)
sikiöihisi (illative plural)
sikiölläsi (adessive singular)
sikiöilläsi (adessive plural)
sikiöltäsi (ablative singular)
sikiöiltäsi (ablative plural)
sikiöllesi (allative singular)
sikiöillesi (allative plural)
sikiönäsi (essive singular)
sikiöinäsi (essive plural)
sikiöksesi (singular translative)
sikiöiksesi (plural translative)
sikiöttäsi (abessive singular)
sikiöittäsi (abessive plural)
sikiöinesi (comitative plural)
sikiömme (nominative singular)
sikiömme (nominative plural)
sikiömme (accusative nominative singular)
sikiömme (accusative nominative plural)
sikiömme (accusative genitive singular)
sikiömme (accusative genitive plural)
sikiömme (genitive singular)
sikiöidemme (genitive plural)
sikiöittemme (genitive plural)
sikiötämme (partitive singular)
sikiöitämme (partitive plural)
sikiössämme (inessive singular)
sikiöissämme (inessive plural)
sikiöstämme (elative singular)
sikiöistämme (elative plural)
sikiöömme (illative singular)
sikiöihimme (illative plural)
sikiöllämme (adessive singular)
sikiöillämme (adessive plural)
sikiöltämme (ablative singular)
sikiöiltämme (ablative plural)
sikiöllemme (allative singular)
sikiöillemme (allative plural)
sikiönämme (essive singular)
sikiöinämme (essive plural)
sikiöksemme (singular translative)
sikiöiksemme (plural translative)
sikiöttämme (abessive singular)
sikiöittämme (abessive plural)
sikiöinemme (comitative plural)
sikiönne (nominative singular)
sikiönne (nominative plural)
sikiönne (accusative nominative singular)
sikiönne (accusative nominative plural)
sikiönne (accusative genitive singular)
sikiönne (accusative genitive plural)
sikiönne (genitive singular)
sikiöidenne (genitive plural)
sikiöittenne (genitive plural)
sikiötänne (partitive singular)
sikiöitänne (partitive plural)
sikiössänne (inessive singular)
sikiöissänne (inessive plural)
sikiöstänne (elative singular)
sikiöistänne (elative plural)
sikiöönne (illative singular)
sikiöihinne (illative plural)
sikiöllänne (adessive singular)
sikiöillänne (adessive plural)
sikiöltänne (ablative singular)
sikiöiltänne (ablative plural)
sikiöllenne (allative singular)
sikiöillenne (allative plural)
sikiönänne (essive singular)
sikiöinänne (essive plural)
sikiöksenne (singular translative)
sikiöiksenne (plural translative)
sikiöttänne (abessive singular)
sikiöittänne (abessive plural)
sikiöinenne (comitative plural)
sikiönsä (nominative singular)
sikiönsä (nominative plural)
sikiönsä (accusative nominative singular)
sikiönsä (accusative nominative plural)
sikiönsä (accusative genitive singular)
sikiönsä (accusative genitive plural)
sikiönsä (genitive singular)
sikiöidensä (genitive plural)
sikiöittensä (genitive plural)
sikiötään (partitive singular)
sikiötänsä (partitive singular)
sikiöitään (partitive plural)
sikiöitänsä (partitive plural)
sikiössään (inessive singular)
sikiössänsä (inessive singular)
sikiöissään (inessive plural)
sikiöissänsä (inessive plural)
sikiöstään (elative singular)
sikiöstänsä (elative singular)
sikiöistään (elative plural)
sikiöistänsä (elative plural)
sikiöönsä (illative singular)
sikiöihinsä (illative plural)
sikiöllään (adessive singular)
sikiöllänsä (adessive singular)
sikiöillään (adessive plural)
sikiöillänsä (adessive plural)
sikiöltään (ablative singular)
sikiöltänsä (ablative singular)
sikiöiltään (ablative plural)
sikiöiltänsä (ablative plural)
sikiölleen (allative singular)
sikiöllensä (allative singular)
sikiöilleen (allative plural)
sikiöillensä (allative plural)
sikiönään (essive singular)
sikiönänsä (essive singular)
sikiöinään (essive plural)
sikiöinänsä (essive plural)
sikiökseen (singular translative)
sikiöksensä (singular translative)
sikiöikseen (plural translative)
sikiöiksensä (plural translative)
sikiöttään (abessive singular)
sikiöttänsä (abessive singular)
sikiöittään (abessive plural)
sikiöittänsä (abessive plural)
sikiöineen (comitative plural)
sikiöinensä (comitative plural)

siitä (“to be conceived, to procreate”) + -iö


diabolo

Borrowed from Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).


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)

desctree

→ 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


лесник

bg-noun

лесни́к • (lesník) m

лесни́к (canonical)
lesník (romanization)
лесни́к (indefinite singular)
лесни́ци (indefinite plural)
лесни́кът (definite singular subjective)
лесни́ците (definite plural subjective)
лесни́ка (definite objective singular)
лесни́ците (definite objective plural)
лесни́ко (singular vocative)
лесни́ци (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

лесни́к<(h)>

From лес (les, “forest”) (poetic) + -ник (-nik).

affix

(literary) lesnik (supernatural being from Slavic mythology)


genie

From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).

psm

genie in a bottle

(mythology) A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.


Marso

Borrowed from Latin Mārs, from Old Latin Māvors. Doublet of marto.

(Roman mythology) Mars, the Roman god of war


kindred

en-noun

kindred (countable and uncountable, plural kindreds)

From Middle English kyndrede, from older kynrede (“kindred”), from Old English cynrēd, cynrǣden (“kindred, family, stock”), from cynn (“kind, kin, lineage”) + -rǣden (“condition, state”). Equivalent to kin + -red, see these. The -d- is epenthetic between a nasal and a liquid (as e.g. in spindle).

We talked with Jonina about our kindred, Heathenry in the United States, Asatru in Iceland, and the details of our religious practice.[…]

2009, Mark Ludwig Stinson, Heathen Gods: A Collection of Essays Concerning the Folkway of Our People, page 174:

Your chosen kindred or other group is a Venn circle that contains you, but it may not be the same circle as your family.

2013 November 8, Patricia M. Lafayllve, A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 117:

Not all, but many people believe that if you're not in a kindred, then you are not a real Norse Pagan or heathen.

2019 May 20, Theodoric Dukka, A Heathen's Guide: Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, →ISBN, page 101:

(countable, Germanic paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry or Ásatrú.


Iuno

la-proper noun

Iūnō f sg (genitive Iūnōnis); third declension

Iūnō (canonical feminine singular)
Iūnōnis (genitive)
Iūnō (nominative singular)
Iūnōnis (genitive singular)
Iūnōnī (dative singular)
Iūnōnem (accusative singular)
Iūnōne (ablative singular)
Iūnō (singular vocative)

There are two hypotheses:
* From Proto-Indo-European *dyúh₃onh₂-, *dyúh₃nh₂- (“having heavenly authority”), from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”), rendering Iuvō, *Iūnis, normalized to Iūnō, Iūnōnis. See Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “Dione”);
* From Proto-Indo-European *h₂yúh₃onh₂-, *h₂yúh₃nh₂- (“the young goddess”), from *h₂óyu (“long time, lifetime”) + *-Hō (“burden, authority”) also rendering *Iuvō, *Iūnis, normalized to Iūnō, Iūnōnis. See Latin iuvenis (“young”).

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

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

(Roman mythology, religion) Juno, queen of the gods, patron of rulers and childbirth, equivalent to the Greek Hera.


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)


Юпитер

bg-proper noun

Юпи́тер • (Jupíter) m

Юпи́тер (canonical)
Jupíter (romanization)

Ми́масЕнцела́дТе́тидаДио́наРе́яТита́нЯпе́т


Юпитер

ru-proper noun+

Юпи́тер • (Jupíter) m inan or m anim (genitive Юпи́тера, nominative plural Юпи́теры, genitive plural Юпи́теров)

Юпи́тер (canonical)
Jupíter (romanization)
Юпи́тера (genitive)
Юпи́теры (nominative plural)
Юпи́теров (genitive plural)
Юпи́тер (nominative singular)
Юпи́теры (nominative plural)
Юпи́тера (genitive singular)
Юпи́теров (genitive plural)
Юпи́теру (dative singular)
Юпи́терам (dative plural)
Юпи́тера (accusative animate singular)
Юпи́теров (accusative animate plural)
Юпи́тер (accusative inanimate singular)
Юпи́теры (accusative inanimate plural)
Юпи́тером (instrumental singular)
Юпи́терами (instrumental plural)
Юпи́тере (prepositional singular)
Юпи́терах (plural prepositional)

→ Uyghur: يوپىتېر (yopitër)

Юпи́теръ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


Krishna

en-prop

Krishna (countable and uncountable, plural Krishnas)

(Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.


coco

Borrowed from Portuguese côco (“bogeyman, grinning face”), probably from Latin coccum (“kernel, seed”).

bor+

Duérmete niño, duérmete ya… que viene el coco y te comerá.

Sleep child, sleep now… lest the bogeyman come and eat you.


Cupid

From Latin Cupīdō, personification of cupīdō (“desire, desire of love”), from cupidus (“eager, greedy, passionate”), from cupere (“to desire”).

The myth of Cupid and Psyche was one of the most influential romances in European culture.

(Roman mythology) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a putto (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.


mythology

en-noun

mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)

First attested as Middle English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “I tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “I say”).

com

This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), page 198

(countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.

myytistö

pervasive elements of a fictional universe


draig

draige (genitive singular)
draig
dhraig
ndraig

From Old Irish draic, from Proto-Brythonic *drėg, earlier Proto-Celtic *drakū, from Latin dracō.


draig

dreigiau (plural)
draig
ddraig (soft)
nraig

From Middle Welsh dreic, from Proto-Brythonic *drėg, earlier *drakū, from Latin dracō.


Mawrth

From Middle Welsh Mawrth, from Proto-Brythonic *Mo̦rθ, borrowed from Latin mārtius. Compare Cornish Merth, Breton Meurzh.


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)


fara

farny (adjective)
fara (nominative singular)
fary (nominative plural)
fary (genitive singular)
far (genitive plural)
farze (dative singular)
farom (dative plural)
farę (accusative singular)
fary (accusative plural)
farą (instrumental singular)
farami (instrumental plural)
farze (locative singular)
farach (locative plural)
faro (singular vocative)
fary (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fara

→ Slovincian: fara

Borrowed from German Pfarre. First attested in 1553. Compare Silesian fara.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “fara”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(archaic, Christianity) parish church; parish (church that serves as the religious center of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches)

(obsolete, education) parochial school (school associated with the parish of a church)

(Middle Polish, Christianity) parish (part of a diocese; costs associated with parish maintenance)

Pánie ſtáry/ Porzuć cżáry/ Im ſie wiáry/ Gotuy máry/ By bez wiáry/ Dyabeł ſzáry/ Do ſwey fáry/ Zá ſwe dary/ W ſwe browáry Ná przewáry/ Nie wziął cie ná ſwiętá.

(Middle Polish, figurative, hapax, religion) hell (place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death)


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.


Iron Age

/ˈʌɪən eɪdʒ/

From iron + age, in the mythological sense a calque of Latin saecula ferrea, aetas ferrea; in the archaeological sense a calque of Danish jernalder.

He that shall examine this iron age wherein we live, where love is cold […] may well ask where is charity?

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:

(mythology) The most recent and debased of the four or five classical Ages of Man; hence, any period characterized by wicked behavior.


dip

From Andalusian Arabic ديب (ḏíb), from Arabic ذِئْب (ḏiʔb).

(mythology) A black vampiric hellhound associated with the town of Pratdip in the Camp de Tarragona.


pixie

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.

Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing.

2005, Dan Keding, “The Pixies’ Bed”, in Dan Keding, Amy Douglas, editors, English Folktales, page 98:

When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies flying toward her. She had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Then the pixies turned around and attacked again.

2005, Kathryn Reyes, Mystery Door Manor and the Dragon Realm, page 72:

The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie called Rolog, had died. On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side. Seeing the pixie dying had had no effect on him.

2007, Jeremy Phillips, The Wizardon Star, page 165:

Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes.
Then Tiffy raised her hand and said, “Hi, I'm Tiffy the Tooth Fairy.” Even though the other pixie lifted her hand too, she didn't answer.

2010, Sandra A. Filbin, The Enchanted World: A Tooth Fairy's Tale, page 49:

(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.


numen

la-noun

nūmen n (genitive nūminis); third declension

nūmen (canonical neuter)
nūminis (genitive)
nūmen (nominative singular)
nūmina (nominative plural)
nūminis (genitive singular)
nūminum (genitive plural)
nūminī (dative singular)
nūminibus (dative plural)
nūmen (accusative singular)
nūmina (accusative plural)
nūmine (ablative singular)
nūminibus (ablative plural)
nūmen (singular vocative)
nūmina (plural vocative)

→ English: numen, numinous

→ Italian: nume

→ Portuguese: nume, númen

→ Spanish: numen

* Could be simply an action noun of *nuō, for *nuimen, from *nuō + -men, thus meaning "a nodding with the head", "a nod", "command", "will" (as nūtus), with the particular meaning of "the divine will", "the will or power of the gods", "divine sway".
* Others suggest the Ancient Greek word νοούμενον (nooúmenon) ("an influence perceptible by mind but not by senses"), from νοέω (noéō), was borrowed into Early Latin as the word noumen, whose spelling changed to numen in Classical Latin.

divinity (Georges Dumézil argues this is a modern meaning and not one from the Classical period, where it was either attributed to particular gods or other entities, such as in numen Cereris or numen dei, or wrongly interpreted)


elementary

From Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire.

The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 45:

[…] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]

2003, H P Blavatsky, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, volume 1:

But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow their development from the elementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers […]

2007, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, page 332:

(mythology, mysticism) A supernatural being associated with the elements.


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.

(music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).

An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.


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).


gul

gul (nominative singular)
gule (nominative plural)
gula (genitive singular)
gulów (genitive plural)
gulowi (dative singular)
gulom (dative plural)
gula (accusative singular)
gule (accusative plural)
gulem (instrumental singular)
gulami (instrumental plural)
gulu (locative singular)
gulach (locative plural)
gulu (singular vocative)
gule (plural vocative)


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

Zeit, sagt man, ist Lethe; aber auch Fernluft ist so ein Trank, und sollte sie weniger gründlich wirken, so tut sie es dafür desto rascher.

1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 13:


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)

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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


dybbuk

From Yiddish דיבוק (dibek), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).

(mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.


phantasm

A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.

But night comes in with a more genial spirit: we have done our worst and our bitterest; and we need a small space to indulge any little bit of cordiality that may be left in us. A thousand gay phantasms float in on the sunny south, which has left the far-off vineyards of its birth.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 75:

He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.

1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:

Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.