demigod

From demi- + god. Calque of the Latin semideus (“half-god”), which is probably a coining by the Roman poet Ovid for less important gods such as dryads.

(mythology) A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.


draco

la-noun

dracō m (genitive dracōnis); third declension

dracō (canonical masculine)
dracōnis (genitive)
dracō (nominative singular)
dracōnēs (nominative plural)
dracōnis (genitive singular)
dracōnum (genitive plural)
dracōnī (dative singular)
dracōnibus (dative plural)
dracōnem (accusative singular)
dracōnēs (accusative plural)
dracōne (ablative singular)
dracōnibus (ablative plural)
dracō (singular vocative)
dracōnēs (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance:

Aromanian: drac, dracu, dãrac, darac

Megleno-Romanian: drac

Romanian: drac

Italian: drago, dragone

Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: dragón

Neapolitan: draone

desctree

→ Old French: dragon, dragun (Anglo-Norman)
Middle French: dracon
French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
Norman: dragon
→ Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragoune, dragun
English: dragon (see there for further descendants)
Scots: draigon
→ Old Irish: dragán
Irish: dragan
Manx: dragan

Old Leonese:

Asturian: dragu, dragón

Old Occitan:

Catalan: drac, dragó

Occitan: drac, dragon

→ French: drac

Old Galician-Portuguese: dragon

Galician: dragón

Portuguese: drago, dragão

Old Spanish: dragon
Spanish: drago, dragón (see there for further descendants)

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: drâc, dragon

Romansch: dragun

Sardinian: dragone

Sicilian: dragu

→ Maltese: dragun

Venetan: dragon

Vulgar Latin: *dragōnis

→ Proto-Albanian: *dragɔ̄n

Albanian: dragua

→ Albanian: *drak

Albanian: dreq

→ Cornish: dragon

→ Estonian: draakon

→ Proto-West Germanic: *drakō (see there for further descendants)

→ Latvian: drakons

→ Lithuanian: drakonas

→ Welsh: draig

→ Yiddish: דראַקאָן (drakon)

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).


cyclops

en-noun

cyclops (plural cyclops or cyclopes or cyclopses)

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

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

der

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

(zoology) Any copepod in the genus Cyclops.


bogie

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All of a sudden he heard a terrible scream ahead, and he thought it must be the bogie singing his dirge.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 47:

A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.


bogey

Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence partly bug), of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”) (compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”)), from Proto-Celtic [Term?], or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”)); see also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger.
The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player.


bogey

Alternative spelling of bogie (“one of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle”)

bogie

Alternative spelling of bogie (“hand-operated truck or trolley”)

Upgrading the tram bogeys to air-conditioned bogeys costs the State Government approximately INR 25,00,000/- per bogey.

2020 January 30, “Upgrading Kolkata's Tram Network”, in C40 Cities, archived from the original on 2024-02-25:

(British, dated, India, rail transport) Alternative spelling of bogie (“railway carriage”)


pontifex

sk-noun

pontifex m pers (related adjective pontifikálny)

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


yum

Yum K’áax ("Lord of the Forest": a Mayan god of the forest and chocolate)

Yum Cháak ("Lord of Rain": Chaac, a Mayan rain god)


monstrum

la-noun

mōnstrum n (genitive mōnstrī); second declension

mōnstrum (canonical neuter)
mōnstrī (genitive)
mōnstrum (nominative singular)
mōnstra (nominative plural)
mōnstrī (genitive singular)
mōnstrōrum (genitive plural)
mōnstrō (dative singular)
mōnstrīs (dative plural)
mōnstrum (accusative singular)
mōnstra (accusative plural)
mōnstrō (ablative singular)
mōnstrīs (ablative plural)
mōnstrum (singular vocative)
mōnstra (plural vocative)

Catalan: monstre

→ Esperanto: monstro

Galician: monstro

Italian: mostro

desctree

Old French: monstre, mostre, moustre
→ Middle English: monstre, moustre
English: monster
Scots: monster
Middle French: monstre
French: monstre
→ Romanian: monstru
Norman: monstre
→ Middle Dutch: monster
Dutch: monster

Portuguese: monstro

Spanish: monstruo

→ Albanian: moshtrë, monstër

[ˈmõːs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]

From Proto-Italic *monestrom. Equivalent to moneō (“advise, warn”) + -trum (suffix forming instrument nouns).

suffix

(fantasy, mythology) a divine omen indicating misfortune, an evil omen, portent


גולם

he-noun

גולם / גֹּלֶם • (gólem) m (plural indefinite גְּלָמִים, plural construct גָּלְמֵי־) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

גֹּלֶם (canonical)
gólem (romanization)
גְּלָמִים (indefinite plural)
גָּלְמֵי־ (construct plural)

(mythology, Jewish folklore) a golem, a clay automaton


גולם

yi-noun

גולם • (goylem) m, plural גולמס (goylems) or גולמים (goylomem)

goylem (romanization)
goylems (romanization)
goylomem (romanization)

bor

גולם \ גֹּלֶם


monstre

English: monster

Scots: monster

Borrowed from Old French monstre, borrowed itself from Latin monstrum.

(rare) Fate, luck; fortuitousness (as an allegorical figure)


ghoul

Portuguese: ghoul

From Persian غول (ğul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl). Compare French goule, of the same origin.

The other chamber had shown a pack of ghouls and witches over-running the world of our forefathers, but this one brought the horror right into our own daily life!.

From my laboratory in the Castle east
To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the Mash
They did the Monster Mash.

1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.

(derogatory, slang) A person with a callous or uncaring attitude to human life and suffering, particularly when prioritizing economic concerns.


ghoul

Unadapted borrowing from English ghoul, from Persian غول (ğul).

(mythology, folklore) ghoul (a spirit said to feed on corpses)


Hilo

(Hawaiian mythology) a Polynesian navigator


golem

גולם \ גֹּלֶם

(mythology) A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.

(by extension, fantasy) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.


golem

גולם \ גֹּלֶם

(mythology) golem; a creature made from mud and clay and brought to life through magic


golem

golem (nominative singular)
golemy (nominative plural)
golema (genitive singular)
golemów (genitive plural)
golemowi (dative singular)
golemom (dative plural)
golema (accusative singular)
golemy (accusative plural)
golemów (accusative plural)
golemem (instrumental singular)
golemami (instrumental plural)
golemie (locative singular)
golemach (locative plural)
golemie (singular vocative)
golemy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Hebrew גולם \ גֹּלֶם (gólem).

bor+

גולם \ גֹּלֶם


golem

גולם \ גֹּלֶם


zed

en-verb

zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded)

zeds (present singular third-person)
zedding (participle present)
zedded (participle past)
zedded (past)

From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta), from Hebrew ז (zayin) with influence from beta, eta and theta. Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German, Italian, and Finnish pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta. Cognate to Spanish zeta, German Zett, French zède, Italian zeta, and perhaps Portuguese zê.

Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.

I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.

1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:

"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."

(intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)


catoblepas

en-noun

catoblepas (plural catoblepae or catoblepones)

catoblepae (plural)
catoblepones (plural)

Borrowed from Latin catōblepās, from Ancient Greek κᾰτῶβλεψ (katôbleps), κᾰτωβλέπων (katōblépōn), κᾰτώβλεπον (katṓblepon, “down-looker”), from κᾰτᾰβλέπω (katablépō, “to look downwards”, from κᾰτᾰ́ (katá) + βλέπω (blépō)).

af

κᾰτᾰ́ (katá) + βλέπω (blépō)

Behind them, blindfolded and muzzled, came catoblepones.

2019, Joel Puga, The Journeys of the Sorcerer:

The most obvious curseinflicting monsters that came to mind were Basilisks, Cockatrices, and Catoblepones.

2022, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone:

A legendary creature from Ethiopia, said to have the body of a Cape buffalo, scales on its back, and the head of a wild boar, which always points downward because of its weight.


Amazon

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

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

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

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


cynocephalus

la-noun

cynocephalus m (genitive cynocephalī); second declension

cynocephalī (genitive)
cynocephalus (nominative singular)
cynocephalī (nominative plural)
cynocephalī (genitive singular)
cynocephalōrum (genitive plural)
cynocephalō (dative singular)
cynocephalīs (dative plural)
cynocephalum (accusative singular)
cynocephalōs (accusative plural)
cynocephalō (ablative singular)
cynocephalīs (ablative plural)
cynocephale (singular vocative)
cynocephalī (plural vocative)

English: cynocephalus

[kʏnɔˈkɛpʰäɫ̪ʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek κυνοκέφαλος (kunoképhalos), a compound of κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + κέφαλος (képhalos, “head”).


Keb

(Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Geb


aegis

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

IPA

IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈiːd͡ʒɪdiːz/

покровителство

endorsement, sponsorship — see also endorsement, sponsorship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


aegis

la-noun

aegis f (genitive aegidos or aegidis); third declension

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

Catalan: ègida

English: aegis

French: égide

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

Italian: egida

→ Polish: egida

Portuguese: égide

Romanian: egidă

Russian: эги́да (egída)

Sicilian: èggida

Spanish: égida

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

… Pallās, prō ducibus nostrīs aegida semper habē.

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

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

transferred senses
transferred sense#English

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


cyclopean

en-adj

cyclopean (comparative more cyclopean, superlative most cyclopean)

more cyclopean (comparative)
most cyclopean (superlative)


gryps

la-noun

grȳps m (genitive grȳpis); third declension

grȳps (canonical masculine)
grȳpis (genitive)
grȳps (nominative singular)
grȳpēs (nominative plural)
grȳpes (nominative plural)
grȳpis (genitive singular)
grȳpium (genitive plural)
grȳpī (dative singular)
grȳpibus (dative plural)
grȳpem (accusative singular)
grȳpēs (accusative plural)
grȳpīs (accusative plural)
grypas (accusative plural)
grȳpe (ablative singular)
grȳpibus (ablative plural)
grȳps (singular vocative)
grȳpēs (plural vocative)
grȳpes (plural vocative)

Asturian: grifu

Catalan: griu, grif, grifó

Danish: grib

Italian: grifone, grifo

Norwegian: gribb

desctree

Old French: griffon, gripun, gripoun
Middle English: griffoun, griphon, grefoun, gryffoun, gryffone, gryffon, grifown, griphonne, gryffyn, griffone, grefyne
English: griffin, griffon, gryphon
French: griffon

Old High German: grifo
Middle High German: grīfe
German: Greif

Old Irish: gríb
Irish: gríobh
Manx: greeu
Scottish Gaelic: grib

Portuguese: grifo

Spanish: grifo


draconic

en-adj

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

more draconic (comparative)
most draconic (superlative)

From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ic, after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.

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[…] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.

1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64:

The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.

1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248:

In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."

1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row, published 1973, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10:

(rare, dated) Very severe or strict; draconian.


hippocentaurus

la-noun

hippocentaurus m (genitive hippocentaurī); second declension

hippocentaurī (genitive)
hippocentaurus (nominative singular)
hippocentaurī (nominative plural)
hippocentaurī (genitive singular)
hippocentaurōrum (genitive plural)
hippocentaurō (dative singular)
hippocentaurīs (dative plural)
hippocentaurum (accusative singular)
hippocentaurōs (accusative plural)
hippocentaurō (ablative singular)
hippocentaurīs (ablative plural)
hippocentaure (singular vocative)
hippocentaurī (plural vocative)

→ English: hippocentaur

→ French: hippocentaure

[hɪpːɔkɛn̪ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek ἱπποκένταυρος (hippokéntauros).

der

ἱπποκένταυρος


wyvern

Alteration of Middle English wyver (“viper”), borrowed from Old Northern French wivre, from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”). Doublet of weever and viper.

The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.

1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222

(heraldry, mythology, fantasy) A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.


vice

vīce (canonical feminine plural)
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více (nominative plural)
víc (genitive plural)
vícam (dative plural)
více (accusative plural)
vícah (locative plural)
vícami (instrumental plural)


pyhä

pyhä (nominative singular)
pyhät (nominative plural)
pyhän (genitive singular)
pyhhiin (genitive plural)
pyhhää (partitive singular)
pyhhiä (partitive plural)
pyhhää (illative singular)
pyhhii (illative plural)
pyhäs (inessive singular)
pyhis (inessive plural)
pyhäst (elative singular)
pyhist (elative plural)
pyhälle (allative singular)
pyhille (allative plural)
pyhäl (adessive singular)
pyhil (adessive plural)
pyhält (ablative singular)
pyhilt (ablative plural)
pyhäks (singular translative)
pyhiks (plural translative)
pyhännä (essive singular)
pyhhään (essive singular)
pyhinnä (essive plural)
pyhhiin (essive plural)
pyhänt (exessive singular)
pyhint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *pühä. Cognates with Finnish pyhä and Estonian püha.


vampire

desc

ভ্যাম্পায়ার

→ Bengali: ভ্যাম্পায়ার (bhêmpaẏar)

→ Irish: vaimpír

→ Japanese: ヴァンパイア (vanpaia), バンパイア (banpaia)

→ Marathi: व्हॅम्पायर (vhĕmpāyar)

→ Thai: แวมไพร์ (wɛm-paai)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bhampair

→ Swahili: vampiri

→ Turkish: vampir

→ Welsh: fampir

From French vampire, from German Vampir, via Hungarian from a Slavic word, probably Serbo-Croatian вампир (vàmpīr), proposed to be a variant of unattested *upir, from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь, q.v. Compare Russian упы́рь (upýrʹ), Polish upiór, Polish wąpierz, etc. Doublet of oupire.

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition Porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.


hippocampus

en-noun

hippocampus (plural hippocampi or hippocampuses)

hippocampi (plural)
hippocampuses (plural)

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From Late Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, from ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”)). The anatomy sense is so named from its resemblance to the seahorse.

der

(mythology) A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a dolphin.


lycanthrope

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos).

More generally, any sort of werecreature.


lycanthrope

fr-noun

lycanthrope m or f by sense (plural lycanthropes)

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “human-wolf”).


versipellis

la-noun

versipellis m (genitive versipellis); third declension

versipellis (genitive)
versipellis (nominative singular)
versipellēs (nominative plural)
versipellis (genitive singular)
versipellium (genitive plural)
versipellī (dative singular)
versipellibus (dative plural)
versipellem (accusative singular)
versipellēs (accusative plural)
versipellīs (accusative plural)
versipelle (ablative singular)
versipellibus (ablative plural)
versipellis (singular vocative)
versipellēs (plural vocative)

→ Italian: versipelle (learned)

[u̯ɛrs̠ɪˈpɛlːʲɪs̠]

From vertō (“turn”) + pellis (“skin, hide”).

(fantasy, mythology) a werewolf, lycanthrope


mythos

mȳthos m (genitive mȳthī); second declension

mȳthos (canonical masculine)
mȳthī (genitive)
mȳthos (nominative singular)
mȳthī (nominative plural)
mȳthī (genitive singular)
mȳthōrum (genitive plural)
mȳthō (dative singular)
mȳthīs (dative plural)
mȳthon (accusative singular)
mȳthōs (accusative plural)
mȳthō (ablative singular)
mȳthīs (ablative plural)
mȳthe (singular vocative)
mȳthī (plural vocative)

→ French: mythe m
→ Turkish: mit

[ˈmyːt̪ʰɔs̠]

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos)bor.
Latin mythos
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦθος m (mûthos).


werewolf

From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). By surface analysis, were- + wolf. Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi.
Compare also French garou, in loup-garou, French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”), Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”), all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.

Near-synonym: dogman

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.


ouroboros

en-noun

ouroboros (plural ouroboroi or ouroboroses)

From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))).

af

which is derived from the verb <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">βιβρώσκω</i> (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”)

bor

The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.

1968 [1951], R. F. C. Hull, transl., Aion […] (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung), 2nd edition, volume 9.2, Princeton University Press, translation of original by C. G. Jung, →ISBN, page 264:

Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.

1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.

2004, Adrian Bejan et al., Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 121:

First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]

2013, Jackie DiSalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson eds., Blake, Politics, and History, Routledge, →ISBN:

(mythology) A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.

أوربوروس

a serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail


einherjar

From Old Norse einherjar (plural, literally “lone fighters”) (rarely attested singular einheri).

(Norse mythology) The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.


einherjar

Icelandic: einherjar

Faroese: einherjar

Norwegian Nynorsk: einherjar

Swedish: einhärjar, enhärjar

Danish: einherjer, enherjer

Norwegian Bokmål: einherjer

→ English: einherjar

From Old Norse einn (“one; lone, single”) + herjar (“army”, pl.).

com

(Norse mythology) the einherjar, dead warriors in Valhalla


undead

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From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. Usage as a noun is attested from the early 20th century onwards.

Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.

When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.

2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-04:

(horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.


undead

In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.

"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiv. 319:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.

2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(horror fiction) Those creatures which are undead; that is, dead yet still animate.

nemrtvý

those creatures which are dead but still animate


undead

en-noun

undead (plural undead or (rare) undeads)

"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.

Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.

1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:

(horror fiction) A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.


haunted

en-adj

haunted (comparative more haunted, superlative most haunted or hauntedest)

more haunted (comparative)
most haunted (superlative)
hauntedest (superlative)

The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.

Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.


kitsune

(Japanese mythology) A Japanese fox spirit, often but not exclusively female, said to have powers such as shape-shifting, and whose power is symbolized by increase in number of tails.


kitsune

kitsun (indefinite nominative singular)
kitsuns (genitive indefinite singular)
kitsunen (definite nominative singular)
kitsunens (definite genitive singular)
kitsuner (indefinite nominative plural)
kitsuners (genitive indefinite plural)
kitsunerna (definite nominative plural)
kitsunernas (definite genitive plural)


tanuki

Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).

(Japanese mythology) A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.


ciel

Haitian Creole: syèl

Inherited from Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

On croyait au ciel.


lycanthropy

en-noun

lycanthropy (usually uncountable, plural lycanthropies)

From Ancient Greek λυκανθρωπία (lukanthrōpía), from λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “wolfman”). By surface analysis, lycanthrope + -y.

uder

(mythology) The state of being a lycanthrope (or werewolf), a person who can shapeshift between the form of a human being and a wolf, often said to happen involuntarily during a full moon; werewolfdom.


specter

From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.

der

A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.

Nevertheleſſe, they which ſhould ſee thoſe Iſles thus to moove in this manner, not knowing before that the ſame were naturall: they would entertaine many and diverſe apprehenſions in their fantaſie, & would imagine that they ſawe a thing very ſtrange and prodigious, and ſuch as did very neere approach to the nature of ſome Specter [translating spectre] and viſion.

1605, Peter de Loier [i.e., Pierre Le Loyer], translated by [Zachary Jones], “The many things being meerely Naturall are taken by the Sight or Hearing being deceived, for Specters and things prodigious”, in A Treatise of Specters or Straunge Sights, Visions and Apparitions Appearing Sensibly vnto Men. […], London: […] Val[entine] S[immes] for Mathew Lownes, →OCLC, folio 62, verso:

A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from 17th c.]


Ahto

Ahto (nominative singular)
Ahdot (nominative plural)
Ahto (accusative nominative singular)
Ahdot (accusative nominative plural)
Ahdon (accusative genitive singular)
Ahdot (accusative genitive plural)
Ahdon (genitive singular)
Ahtojen (genitive plural)
Ahtoa (partitive singular)
Ahtoja (partitive plural)
Ahdossa (inessive singular)
Ahdoissa (inessive plural)
Ahdosta (elative singular)
Ahdoista (elative plural)
Ahtoon (illative singular)
Ahtoihin (illative plural)
Ahdolla (adessive singular)
Ahdoilla (adessive plural)
Ahdolta (ablative singular)
Ahdoilta (ablative plural)
Ahdolle (allative singular)
Ahdoille (allative plural)
Ahtona (essive singular)
Ahtoina (essive plural)
Ahdoksi (singular translative)
Ahdoiksi (plural translative)
Ahdotta (abessive singular)
Ahdoitta (abessive plural)
Ahdoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Ahtoni (nominative singular)
Ahtoni (nominative plural)
Ahtoni (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtoni (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtoni (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtoni (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtoni (genitive singular)
Ahtojeni (genitive plural)
Ahtoani (partitive singular)
Ahtojani (partitive plural)
Ahdossani (inessive singular)
Ahdoissani (inessive plural)
Ahdostani (elative singular)
Ahdoistani (elative plural)
Ahtooni (illative singular)
Ahtoihini (illative plural)
Ahdollani (adessive singular)
Ahdoillani (adessive plural)
Ahdoltani (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltani (ablative plural)
Ahdolleni (allative singular)
Ahdoilleni (allative plural)
Ahtonani (essive singular)
Ahtoinani (essive plural)
Ahdokseni (singular translative)
Ahdoikseni (plural translative)
Ahdottani (abessive singular)
Ahdoittani (abessive plural)
Ahtoineni (comitative plural)
Ahtosi (nominative singular)
Ahtosi (nominative plural)
Ahtosi (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtosi (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtosi (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtosi (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtosi (genitive singular)
Ahtojesi (genitive plural)
Ahtoasi (partitive singular)
Ahtojasi (partitive plural)
Ahdossasi (inessive singular)
Ahdoissasi (inessive plural)
Ahdostasi (elative singular)
Ahdoistasi (elative plural)
Ahtoosi (illative singular)
Ahtoihisi (illative plural)
Ahdollasi (adessive singular)
Ahdoillasi (adessive plural)
Ahdoltasi (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltasi (ablative plural)
Ahdollesi (allative singular)
Ahdoillesi (allative plural)
Ahtonasi (essive singular)
Ahtoinasi (essive plural)
Ahdoksesi (singular translative)
Ahdoiksesi (plural translative)
Ahdottasi (abessive singular)
Ahdoittasi (abessive plural)
Ahtoinesi (comitative plural)
Ahtomme (nominative singular)
Ahtomme (nominative plural)
Ahtomme (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtomme (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtomme (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtomme (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtomme (genitive singular)
Ahtojemme (genitive plural)
Ahtoamme (partitive singular)
Ahtojamme (partitive plural)
Ahdossamme (inessive singular)
Ahdoissamme (inessive plural)
Ahdostamme (elative singular)
Ahdoistamme (elative plural)
Ahtoomme (illative singular)
Ahtoihimme (illative plural)
Ahdollamme (adessive singular)
Ahdoillamme (adessive plural)
Ahdoltamme (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltamme (ablative plural)
Ahdollemme (allative singular)
Ahdoillemme (allative plural)
Ahtonamme (essive singular)
Ahtoinamme (essive plural)
Ahdoksemme (singular translative)
Ahdoiksemme (plural translative)
Ahdottamme (abessive singular)
Ahdoittamme (abessive plural)
Ahtoinemme (comitative plural)
Ahtonne (nominative singular)
Ahtonne (nominative plural)
Ahtonne (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtonne (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtonne (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtonne (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtonne (genitive singular)
Ahtojenne (genitive plural)
Ahtoanne (partitive singular)
Ahtojanne (partitive plural)
Ahdossanne (inessive singular)
Ahdoissanne (inessive plural)
Ahdostanne (elative singular)
Ahdoistanne (elative plural)
Ahtoonne (illative singular)
Ahtoihinne (illative plural)
Ahdollanne (adessive singular)
Ahdoillanne (adessive plural)
Ahdoltanne (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltanne (ablative plural)
Ahdollenne (allative singular)
Ahdoillenne (allative plural)
Ahtonanne (essive singular)
Ahtoinanne (essive plural)
Ahdoksenne (singular translative)
Ahdoiksenne (plural translative)
Ahdottanne (abessive singular)
Ahdoittanne (abessive plural)
Ahtoinenne (comitative plural)
Ahtonsa (nominative singular)
Ahtonsa (nominative plural)
Ahtonsa (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtonsa (accusative nominative plural)
Ahtonsa (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtonsa (accusative genitive plural)
Ahtonsa (genitive singular)
Ahtojensa (genitive plural)
Ahtoaan (partitive singular)
Ahtoansa (partitive singular)
Ahtojaan (partitive plural)
Ahtojansa (partitive plural)
Ahdossaan (inessive singular)
Ahdossansa (inessive singular)
Ahdoissaan (inessive plural)
Ahdoissansa (inessive plural)
Ahdostaan (elative singular)
Ahdostansa (elative singular)
Ahdoistaan (elative plural)
Ahdoistansa (elative plural)
Ahtoonsa (illative singular)
Ahtoihinsa (illative plural)
Ahdollaan (adessive singular)
Ahdollansa (adessive singular)
Ahdoillaan (adessive plural)
Ahdoillansa (adessive plural)
Ahdoltaan (ablative singular)
Ahdoltansa (ablative singular)
Ahdoiltaan (ablative plural)
Ahdoiltansa (ablative plural)
Ahdolleen (allative singular)
Ahdollensa (allative singular)
Ahdoilleen (allative plural)
Ahdoillensa (allative plural)
Ahtonaan (essive singular)
Ahtonansa (essive singular)
Ahtoinaan (essive plural)
Ahtoinansa (essive plural)
Ahdokseen (singular translative)
Ahdoksensa (singular translative)
Ahdoikseen (plural translative)
Ahdoiksensa (plural translative)
Ahdottaan (abessive singular)
Ahdottansa (abessive singular)
Ahdoittaan (abessive plural)
Ahdoittansa (abessive plural)
Ahtoineen (comitative plural)
Ahtoinensa (comitative plural)

A variant of Ahti (mythology), roughly equivalent to Ahti + -o.

1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 48:135-136

Ahto, master of the billows, / Ruler over a hundred sea caves!

Ahto, aaltojen isäntä, / Satahauan hallitsija!

(Finnic mythology) A variation of Ahti, name of the god of the depths, water, and fishing in Finnish mythology.


roc

From Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”).


Ahti

(Finnic mythology) The god of depths, water, and fishing in Finnish mythology.

(Egyptian mythology) A goddess in Egyptian mythology.


Ahti

Ahti (nominative singular)
Ahti (accusative nominative singular)
Ahdin (accusative genitive singular)
Ahdin (genitive singular)
Ahtia (partitive singular)
Ahdissa (inessive singular)
Ahdista (elative singular)
Ahtiin (illative singular)
Ahdilla (adessive singular)
Ahdilta (ablative singular)
Ahdille (allative singular)
Ahtina (essive singular)
Ahdiksi (singular translative)
Ahditta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Ahtini (nominative singular)
Ahtini (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtini (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtini (genitive singular)
Ahtiani (partitive singular)
Ahdissani (inessive singular)
Ahdistani (elative singular)
Ahtiini (illative singular)
Ahdillani (adessive singular)
Ahdiltani (ablative singular)
Ahdilleni (allative singular)
Ahtinani (essive singular)
Ahdikseni (singular translative)
Ahdittani (abessive singular)
Ahtisi (nominative singular)
Ahtisi (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtisi (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtisi (genitive singular)
Ahtiasi (partitive singular)
Ahdissasi (inessive singular)
Ahdistasi (elative singular)
Ahtiisi (illative singular)
Ahdillasi (adessive singular)
Ahdiltasi (ablative singular)
Ahdillesi (allative singular)
Ahtinasi (essive singular)
Ahdiksesi (singular translative)
Ahdittasi (abessive singular)
Ahtimme (nominative singular)
Ahtimme (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtimme (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtimme (genitive singular)
Ahtiamme (partitive singular)
Ahdissamme (inessive singular)
Ahdistamme (elative singular)
Ahtiimme (illative singular)
Ahdillamme (adessive singular)
Ahdiltamme (ablative singular)
Ahdillemme (allative singular)
Ahtinamme (essive singular)
Ahdiksemme (singular translative)
Ahdittamme (abessive singular)
Ahtinne (nominative singular)
Ahtinne (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtinne (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtinne (genitive singular)
Ahtianne (partitive singular)
Ahdissanne (inessive singular)
Ahdistanne (elative singular)
Ahtiinne (illative singular)
Ahdillanne (adessive singular)
Ahdiltanne (ablative singular)
Ahdillenne (allative singular)
Ahtinanne (essive singular)
Ahdiksenne (singular translative)
Ahdittanne (abessive singular)
Ahtinsa (nominative singular)
Ahtinsa (accusative nominative singular)
Ahtinsa (accusative genitive singular)
Ahtinsa (genitive singular)
Ahtiaan (partitive singular)
Ahtiansa (partitive singular)
Ahdissaan (inessive singular)
Ahdissansa (inessive singular)
Ahdistaan (elative singular)
Ahdistansa (elative singular)
Ahtiinsa (illative singular)
Ahdillaan (adessive singular)
Ahdillansa (adessive singular)
Ahdiltaan (ablative singular)
Ahdiltansa (ablative singular)
Ahdilleen (allative singular)
Ahdillensa (allative singular)
Ahtinaan (essive singular)
Ahtinansa (essive singular)
Ahdikseen (singular translative)
Ahdiksensa (singular translative)
Ahdittaan (abessive singular)
Ahdittansa (abessive singular)

Probably ahtaa + -i. The consonantism implies a relatively recent derivation, but based on the dialectal meaning "to hang up to dry". The god of water and fishing would have thus originally been a god that helps keep fish nets dry and thus by extension bring a good catch. Alternatively possibly borrowed from Proto-Samic *āččē (“father”), an epithet that occurs in many names of Sami deities.

Ahdin valtakunta

the depths of the water, Davy Jones's locker (nautical slang)

(Finnic mythology) The god of depths, water, and fishing.


Iuppiter

la-proper noun

Iuppiter m (genitive Iovis); third declension

Iovis (genitive)
Iuppiter (nominative singular)
Iovēs (nominative plural)
Iovis (genitive singular)
Iovum (genitive plural)
Iovī (dative singular)
Iovibus (dative plural)
Iovem (accusative singular)
Iovēs (accusative plural)
Iove (ablative singular)
Iovibus (ablative plural)
Iuppiter (singular vocative)
Iovēs (plural vocative)

→ Afrikaans: Jupiter

→ Arabic: جُوبِيتَر (jūbītar)

→ Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter)

Asturian: Xúpiter

→ Azerbaijani: Yupiter

→ Bashkir: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Basque: Jupiter

→ Bulgarian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

Catalan: Júpiter

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 朱庇特 (Zhūbìtè)

Cantonese: 朱庇特 (zyu1 bei3 dak6)

→ Cornish: Jubyter, Yow

→ Czech: Jupiter

→ Dutch: Jupiter

→ English: Jupiter, Jove

→ Esperanto: Jupitero

→ Estonian: Jupiter

→ Finnish: Juppiter, Jupiter

Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr

French: Jupiter

Galician: Xúpiter

→ German: Jupiter

→ Hungarian: Jupiter

→ Icelandic: Júpíter

→ Indonesian: Yupiter

→ Irish: Iúpatar

Italian: Giove

→ Latvian: Jupiters

→ Lithuanian: Jupiteris

→ Macedonian: Јупитер (Jupiter)

→ Maltese: Ġovè

desctree

→ Old Ruthenian: Юпи́теръ (Jupíter), Упи́теръ (Upíter)
Belarusian: Юпі́тэр (Jupíter)
Carpathian Rusyn: Юпі́тер (Jupíter)
Ukrainian: Юпі́тер (Jupíter); юпі́тер (jupíter)

→ Persian: ژوپیتر (župiter)

→ Polish: Jowisz, Jupiter

Portuguese: Júpiter

→ Romanian: Jupiter

→ Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter/Ју̀питер

→ Slovak: Jupiter

→ Slovene: Júpiter

Spanish: Júpiter

→ Swedish: Jupiter

→ Tagalog: Hupiter

→ Turkish: Jüpiter

→ Tuvan: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Wolof: Yupiter

→ Yoruba: Júpítérì

→ Zulu: uJupitheri

[ˈi̯ʊpːɪt̪ɛr]

The nominative Iuppiter, for Iūpiter (with shift of the length from vowel to consonant per the "littera" rule), comes from the vocative combined with pater, and essentially meant "father Jove"; from Proto-Italic *djous patēr, from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), root nomen agentis from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Cognate with Umbrian 𐌉𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater), and in other branches of Indo-European Sanskrit द्यौष्पितृ (dyáuṣ-pitṛ́), Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “o father Zeus”). Equivalent to diēs (cf. Iovis) + pater.
The oblique cases Iov-, Iovis continue the inflection of Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognates are Latin diēs (originating from the accusative case of *djous) and Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

cog

Nē Juppiter quidem omnibus placet.

(Roman mythology) Jupiter (god of the sky and ruler of the Roman pantheon)


mucha

pl-noun

mucha f (diminutive muszka, augmentative muszysko, related adjective muszy)

muszka (diminutive)
muszysko (augmentative)
muszy (adjective)
mucha (nominative singular)
muchy (nominative plural)
muchy (genitive singular)
much (genitive plural)
musze (dative singular)
muchom (dative plural)
muchę (accusative singular)
muchy (accusative plural)
muchą (instrumental singular)
muchami (instrumental plural)
musze (locative singular)
muchach (locative plural)
mucho (singular vocative)
muchy (plural vocative)


Mercurius

la-proper noun

Mercurius m sg (genitive Mercuriī or Mercurī); second declension

Mercuriī (genitive)
Mercurī (genitive)
Mercurius (nominative singular)
Mercuriī (genitive singular)
Mercurī (genitive singular)
Mercuriō (dative singular)
Mercurium (accusative singular)
Mercuriō (ablative singular)
Mercurī (singular vocative)

→ Bulgarian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Catalan: Mercuri (learned)

→ Czech: Merkur

→ Danish: Merkur

→ Middle English: Mercurie, mercurie

English: Mercury, mercury

→ Finnish: Merkurius

→ French: Mercure (learned)

→ Galician: Mercurio (learned)

→ German: Merkur

→ Indonesian: Merkurius

→ Italian: Mercurio (learned)

→ Latvian: Merkur

→ Portuguese: Mercúrio (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *Merxür

Breton: Merc'her

Cornish: Merher

Middle Welsh: Merchyr

Welsh: Mercher

→ Russian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Spanish: Mercurio (learned)

→ Swedish: Merkurius

→ Ukrainian: Меркурій (Merkurij)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mercuriāgo

Catalan: melcoratge

Possibly from merx (“merchandise”), or perhaps from Etruscan and influenced by merx.

(Roman mythology) Mercury (god of speed and commerce)


Count Dracula

The fictional vampire in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

काउंट ड्रॅक्यूला

kāuṇṭa ḍrĕkyūlā


giant

/ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/

[ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt]

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).

Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

(mythology, fantasy) Specifically:
A jotun.


seaman

From Middle English seeman, seman, from Old English sǣmann. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Seemon (“seaman, sailor”), West Frisian seeman (“seaman, sailor”), Dutch zeeman (“seaman, sailor”), German Low German Seemann (“seaman, sailor”), German Seemann (“seaman, sailor”), Swedish sjöman (“seaman, sailor”), Norwegian sjømann (“seaman, sailor”). Equivalent to sea + -man.

cog

petty officer third class
petty officer third class

(US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice.


kraken

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).


kraken

kraken (nominative singular)
krakena (genitive singular)
krakenowi (dative singular)
krakena (accusative singular)
krakenem (instrumental singular)
krakenie (locative singular)
krakenie (singular vocative)


puck

→ Danish: puck

→ German: Puck

→ Swedish: puck

From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.


dewa

dewa (nominative singular)
dewowie (nominative plural)
dewy (genitive singular)
dewów (genitive plural)
dewie (dative singular)
dewom (dative plural)
dewę (accusative singular)
dewów (accusative plural)
dewą (instrumental singular)
dewami (instrumental plural)
karatece (locative singular)
dewach (locative plural)
dewo (singular vocative)
dewowie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit देव (deva).

lbor

Coordinate term: asura

(Hinduism) deva (one of the benevolent deities involved in constant conflict with the more power-seeking Asuras)


Dracula

Dracula
Order of the Dragon
Vlad II Dracul
Vlad the Impaler

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.


orc

From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”). Doublet of orca.

(archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.


orc

→ Catalan: orc

→ Czech: ork

→ Danish: ork

→ Dutch: ork

→ Estonian: örk

→ Finnish: örkki

→ French: orc

→ Georgian: ორკი (orḳi)

→ Greek: ορκ (ork)

→ Hungarian: ork

→ Icelandic: orki

→ Japanese: オーク (ōku)

→ Korean: 오크 (okeu)

→ Latvian: orks

→ Lithuanian: orkas

→ Marathi: ऑर्क (ŏrka)

→ Norwegian: ork, orc

→ Polish: ork

→ Portuguese: orc

→ Romanian: orc

→ Russian: орк (ork)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ork / орк

→ Swedish: ork

→ Ukrainian: орк (ork)

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
J. R. R. Tolkien
orc

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc, which he took to mean "demon". Both are from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre and Orcus.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian орк (ork, “evil monstrous humanoid creature; orc”) or Russian орк (ork), both from the English word and possibly under the influence of Russian у́рка (úrka, “criminal”, prison slang). Popularized in English in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

m+

Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.

1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo, I.1:

The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53

There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.

1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

(fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.

Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'.

2015, Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, page 354:

And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan.

2022 March 1, Bruno Maçães, “Europe’s Illusion of Peace Has Been Irrevocably Shattered”, in Time:

Plenty of Belarusian exiles have gone to Europe, but if you run West, then the Orcs [a Ukrainian slang term for "Russian soldiers"] will just follow you there. It's better to risk your life as a free person than to keep running.

2022 July 25, Michael Wasiura, “Belarusian Exiles Join Ukrainians in Taking Up Arms Against Russia”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2022-07-25:

(slang, derogatory) A Russian soldier or gangster.


orc

Unadapted borrowing from English orc. Doublet of ogro and orco.

(fantasy) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)


Drache

de-proper noun

Drache m (proper noun, weak, genitive Drachen)

From Middle High German trache, from Old High German trahho, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, borrowed from Latin dracō. The modern initial d- is influenced by the original Latin, reinforced by dialectal German forms.


Grim Reaper

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/

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

From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time).

cog

Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.

1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:

"Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 220:

Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:

On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 2022-07-04:

But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.

2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3:

A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.

Chronos
Cronus
The Taming of the Shrew
Uranus_(mythology)

стару́ха с косо́й f (starúxa s kosój, literally “old woman with scythe”)


Hanuman

A Hindu demi-god who was a devotee of Lord Rama. He was born to Anjana and Vayu, plays the role of a god’s servant in Ramayana, and is also known as the "monkey god". He represents loyalty to the Lord and Master.


Medusa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Medusa (Rubens)
Medusa (disambiguation)
Rubens


Medusa

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


Medusa

la-proper noun

Medūsa f sg (genitive Medūsae); first declension

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

[mɛˈd̪uːs̠ä]


Medusa

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

bor+

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


Charon

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

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

coin

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


Charon

cs-proper noun

Charon m anim (related adjective Charonův)

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

bor+

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

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

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

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


Charon

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn).

lbor

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


Charon

(Greek mythology) Alternative spelling of Haron


brownie

en-noun

brownie (countable and uncountable, plural brownies)

→ Belarusian: бра́ўні (bráŭni)

→ Chinese: 布朗尼 (bùlǎngní)

→ French: brownie

→ German: Brownie

→ Hungarian: brownie

→ Irish: donnóg (calque)

→ Italian: brownie

→ Japanese: ブラウニー (buraunī)

→ Lithuanian: braunis

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: brownie

→ Polish: brownie

→ Portuguese: brownie

→ Russian: бра́уни (bráuni)

→ Kazakh: брауни (brauni)

→ Spanish: brownie

→ Thai: บราวนี (bpraao-níi)

→ Turkish: brownie, browni, brovni

→ Welsh: browni

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.

Thus, offer Brownie a piece of bread, a cup of drink, or a new coat and hood, and he flouted at it, and perhaps, in his huff, quitted the place for ever ; but leave a nice bowl of cream, and some fresh honeycomb, in a snug private corner, and they soon disappeared, though Brownie, it was to be supposed, never knew any thing of them.

1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 169:

"Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 5:

1908, Dinah Craik, The Adventures of A Brownie:

Stories were told of a brownie riding horseback to fetch the midwife at childbirth or helping his master to win at checkers.

1985, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 1, page 636:

There are no brownies in my house, though. I know because there's always a pile of dishes in the sink.

2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, editors, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End, page 37:

(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.

He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.]

1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 36:

A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent.

Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”).


Ragnarok

/ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɒk/

/ˈɹæɡ.nəˌɹɔk/

Borrowed from Old Norse ragnarǫk (modern Icelandic ragnarök), from regin (“gods”) + rǫk (“fate, judgment”).

Wilhelmina weeps, now and then, with her good Sonsfeld; hopes nevertheless there will be some dawn to this ragnarök, or general ‘twilight of the gods.’

1858, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 274:

And all that is before them and the whole civilised world, would be long centuries of anarchy such as the world has not seen for ages—a true Ragnarok, a twilight of the very gods, an age such as the wise woman foretold in the old Voluspà.

1902, Charles Kingsley, “Ancient Civilisation”, in Historical Lectures and Essays, Macmillan and Co.:

But this heaven was not to last forever. Some day would come Ragnarok, or the Twilight of the Gods, when all creation would be destroyed, and all the Gods and men save Alfadur perish. Surtur, after killing the last of these Gods, would burn up the world.

1916 February, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Teuton's Battle-Song”, in United Amateur:

(Norse mythology) A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.


Ragnarok

/ʁɐ.ɡi.nɐˈɾɔk/

[ʁɐ.ɣi.nɐˈɾɔk]

(Norse mythology) Ragnarok (end of the world in Norse mythology)


zombie

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

Betsy Connell: I don't know about zombies, doctor. Just what is a zombie? / Dr. Maxwell: A ghost. A living dead. It's also a drink.

1943, Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, I Walked with a Zombie (motion picture):

The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf-Man, Dracula, and his son.

1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

Ashley: Dad passed on a few years back. He's probably still watching, though.
Shepard: He's not a zombie, is he?

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:

The zombies first show up 20 minutes in, after Melanie volunteers herself as the next child to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. That’s when we learn that Melanie and her classmates are all “hungries,” or people infected with a toxic fungus that turns them into mindless flesh-eating animals.

2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:

(voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.


zombie

Unadapted borrowing from English zombie.

(fiction) zombie (deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living)


grip

Gripen


ala

Ala je bilo lijepo!

Ala lažeš!

(used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) expression of awe, surprise, dismay, etc.


ala

sh-noun

ála or àla or ȁla f (Cyrillic spelling а́ла or а̀ла or а̏ла)

ála (canonical)
àla (canonical)
ȁla (canonical feminine)
а́ла (Cyrillic)
а̀ла (Cyrillic)
а̏ла (Cyrillic)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xala, unless borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آلا (ala, “spotted, variegated”), euphemistic for a snake.

bor

dragon, type of mythical creature similar to dragon


apocalypse

From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), literally meaning "uncovering", from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John.

der

The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.

A revelation, especially of supernatural events.

(Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.


狒々

狒々 (canonical)
狒々 (canonical)
hihi (romanization)

(Japanese mythology, folklore) a hihi (Japanese monkey-like yokai)


狒狒

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/

/feɪ̯⁵¹ feɪ̯¹/

/fɐt̚⁵ fɐt̚⁵/

/fɐi̯²² fɐi̯²²/

/fɐi̯³³ fɐi̯³³/

/feɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ feɪ̯⁵¹/

/feɪ̯⁵¹ feɪ̯¹/

/fɐt̚⁵ fɐt̚⁵/

/fɐi̯²² fɐi̯²²/

/fɐi̯³³ fɐi̯³³/

(archaic, Chinese mythology) name of a monster mentioned in the Erya (爾雅)


immortality

en-noun

immortality (countable and uncountable, plural immortalities)

/ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/

/ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās.
Morphologically immortal + -ity

خُلُود

condition of not being susceptible to death

In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

In the little, as in the great things of life, are to be found the type and sign of our immortality. Every hope that looks forward is pledge of the hereafter to which it refers. Who rests content with the present? None. We have all deep within us a craving for the future.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage Morning”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 201:

His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."

1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4

(religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.

The condition of being immortal.
Never dying

You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.

2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:

The condition of being immortal.
Being remembered forever


shade

shade (countable and uncountable, plural shades)

From Middle English schade, from Old English sċeadu, sċadu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.

inh

Too long have I been haunted by that shade.

The adventurer was attacked by a shade.

Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Still, Birch House (a sop to the shade of the murdered Perak Resident) had no more than its normal share of flagellation[.]

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:

(chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.


麒麟

Ming Dynasty
Phono-semantic matching
Song Dynasty
Zheng He

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (麒麟):
* → Japanese: 麒(き)麟(りん) (kirin)
* → Korean: 기린(麒麟) (girin)
* → Vietnamese: kì lân (麒麟)

→ Thai: กิเลน (gì-leen)

→ Zhuang: geizlaenz, gizlinz

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ lin³⁵/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹⁻³⁵/

/kʰi²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki⁵³⁻³³ l̃iŋ⁵³/

/ki²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki¹³⁻²² lin¹³/

/ki²³⁻³³ lin²³/

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ lin³⁵/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹/

/kʰei̯²¹ lɵn²¹⁻³⁵/

/kʰi²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki⁵³⁻³³ l̃iŋ⁵³/

/ki²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻¹¹ lin²⁴/

/ki¹³⁻²² lin¹³/

/ki²³⁻³³ lin²³/

Old Chinese pronunciation for this word was *g(ɯ)-rin (Zhengzhang), and in pre-Qin times the beast was also referred to as
* 麟 (OC *rin),
* 麐 (OC *m·rin, *m·rins),
* 𪊓, or
* 蔽 (OC *peds),
the last two having been attested in the oracle bone script already.
There is much debate as to what animal the qilin beast was; some maintain that the qilin was a beast only found in mythology, even though it may have been based on some animal in pre-historic times, and some argue that the qilin was in reality the river deer, the ox or cow, or the Indian rhinoceros (Wang, 2009).
Janhunen (2011) tentatively compares 麒麟 (OC *ɡɯ rin) to a Northeast Asian etymon *kalimV, which denotes either "whale" or "mammoth"; however, he cautiously remarks that "[t]he formal and semantic similarity between *kilin < *gilin ~ *gïlin 'unicorn' and *kalimV 'whale' (but also Samoyedic *kalay- 'mammoth') is sufficient to support, though perhaps not confirm, the hypothesis of an etymological connection". He also notes a possible connection between Old Chinese and Mongolian (*)kers ~ (*)keris ~ (*)kiris "rhinoceros" (> Khalkha Mongolian хирс (xirs)).

Is it only among men that it is so? There is the Qilin among quadrupeds, the Fenghuang (phoenix) among birds, the Tai mountain among mounds and ant-hills, and rivers and seas among rain-pools. Though different in degree, they are the same in kind.

Qǐ wéi mín zāi? Qílín zhī yú zǒushòu, fènghuáng zhī yú fēiniǎo, Tàishān zhī yú qiūdié, hé hǎi zhī yú xíngliáo, lèi yě.

豈惟民哉？麒麟之於走獸，鳳凰之於飛鳥，太山之於丘垤，河海之於行潦，類也。

岂惟民哉？麒麟之于走兽，凤凰之于飞鸟，太山之于丘垤，河海之于行潦，类也。

(Chinese mythology) qilin (propitious mythological beast) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn)


麒麟

麒麟 (canonical)
麒麟 (canonical)
kirin (romanization)

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 麒麟 (MC gi lin). First cited in Japanese to the Nihon Shoki of 720.
The giraffe sense was probably based on a superficial resemblance between certain depictions of the mythical beast and the patterning and body shape of the real animal: a tailed, hoofed, and horned quadruped with a vaguely leopard-like spot pattern. First cited in Japanese to a text from 1798.

2010 May 23, Gosho Aoyama, “ＦＩＬＥ(ファイル).５(ご) [青](せい)[龍](りゅう) [FILE 5: Azure Dragon]”, in 名(めい)探(たん)偵(てい)コナン [Legendary Detective Conan], volume 68 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:

That’s giraffe(kirin) the animal! The qilin(kirin) we’re talking about… has a deer-like body covered in golden scales, with a cow’s tail and a horse’s hooves, and with a single horn growing from its dragonish head… It’s a mythical beast from Chinese legends!

それは動物のキリン！問題の麒麟は…全身が黄色い鱗で覆われていて、姿は鹿、牛の尾と馬の蹄を持ち、龍に似た頭から１本角が生えてる…中国の伝説上の神獣だよ！

Sore wa dōbutsu no kirin! Mondai no kirin wa… Zenshin ga kiiroi uroko de ōwarete ite, sugata wa shika, ushi no o to uma no hizume o mochi, ryū ni nita atama kara ippon tsuno ga haete ru… Chūgoku no densetsu jō no shinjū da yo!

麒麟, 騏驎: (mythology, Chinese mythology) a qilin


fantasma

→ Cebuano: pantasma

Borrowed from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “image, phantom”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear, bring to light”). Compare Sicilian fantàsimu (“dumb”). Cognate with English phantom.

der

El fantasma de la ópera.


were-

Back-formation from werewolf (“man-wolf”), from Old English werewulf, derived from wer (“man”) + wulf (“wolf”).

back-form

lycanthrope, used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.


hearth

From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.

der

Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.

1996, Vivianne Crowley, Thorsons principles of paganism, page 50:

Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.

2003 December 8, Robert J. Wallis, Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies, and Contemporary Pagans, page 102:

Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges[…]

2004 March 1, Peter Clarke, editor, Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, Routledge, page 768:

(Germanic paganism) A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.


surprise

nl-noun

surprise f (plural surprises, diminutive surprisetje n)

surprises (plural)
surprisetje (diminutive neuter)

(Netherlands) a gift wrapped in an ingenious or creative manner; often given anonymously during Sinterklaas celebrations in a similar way to secret Santa


魑魅

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (魑魅):
* → Japanese: 魑魅(ちみ) (chimi)
* → Korean: 이매(魑魅) (imae)
* → Vietnamese: si mị (魑魅)

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ meɪ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiː⁵⁵ mei̯²²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ meɪ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiː⁵⁵ mei̯²²/

Chaos, Oddity, Block-stump, and Glutton were all cast out to the four frontiers, to ward off ill sprites and evil spirits.

Húndūn, Qióngqí, Táowù, Tāotiè, tóu zhū sì yì, yǐ yù chīmèi.

渾敦，窮奇，檮杌，饕餮，投諸四裔，以禦魑魅。

浑敦，穷奇，梼杌，饕餮，投诸四裔，以御魑魅。


魑魅

a demon formed from the spirit of mountains and forests

魑魅魍魎

魑魅魍魎 ちみもうりょう


Hera

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

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


Hera

is-proper noun

Hera f (proper noun, genitive singular Heru)

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


Hera

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

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


Hera

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

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


Hera

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).

lbor

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


Hera

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἥρα (Hḗra).


enano

es-adj

enano (feminine enana, masculine plural enanos, feminine plural enanas)

enana (feminine)
enanos (masculine plural)
enanas (feminine plural)

From Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos). Cognate with Portuguese anão. Compare English nano-.


enano

es-noun

enano m (plural enanos, feminine enana, feminine plural enanas)

enanos (plural)
enana (feminine)
enanas (feminine plural)

→ Cebuano: unano

→ Tagalog: unano


parka

parka (nominative singular)
parki (nominative plural)
parki (genitive singular)
parek (genitive plural)
parce (dative singular)
parkom (dative plural)
parkę (accusative singular)
parki (accusative plural)
parką (instrumental singular)
parkami (instrumental plural)
parce (locative singular)
parkach (locative plural)
parko (singular vocative)
parki (plural vocative)

(Roman mythology) Parca (one of the Fates)


balrog

From Sindarin, a fictional language created by J.R.R. Tolkien, meaning something akin to "mighty demon".

The Balrog made no answer. The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall […]

1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

What was released was a demon, a balrog of pure sexual energy which had been denied for too long.

2004, post on newsgroup, alt.sex.bondage:

[…] is just a big goofy Balrog as far as I'm concerned, he might make a "Green Dot" poster scared; the big dweeb.

2004, post on newsgroup, rec.skiing.alpine:

[And now, a warp-drive round of Confirm or Deny.][...]
Gandalf the Grey was cooler than Gandalf the White.
Hmm, that’s a tough one. I think in some ways he was cooler, but he kind of needed to defeat the Balrog in order to become a better wizard, I guess, and play a bigger role in defeating Sauron. But he was definitely more chill as Gandalf the Grey and had a better sense of humor.

2020 July 25, Maureen Dowd, Elon Musk, “Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2020-07-25:


wraith

Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 as a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology. J. R. R. Tolkien favored a link with writhe. Also compared are Scots warth and Old Norse vǫrðr (“watcher, guardian”), whence Icelandic vörður (“guard”). See also wray/bewray, from Middle English wreien. Perhaps from wrath as a wraith is a vengeful spirit.

We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.

1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Sola Tells Me Her Story”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.

2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 80:

A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.

привидение

A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death


pygmy

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

der

Although Pygmies are relatively protected against gene flow from other populations, many Pygmy tribes show extensive gene replacement and few have remained relatively unaltered.

2018, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, The History and Geography of Human Genes:

(often capitalized) A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.

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

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

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

джудже

a member of a mythological race of dwarfs

It was so high up that the people walking about in the street below looked like pygmies.

2015, Rosie Harris, Moving On: A family saga set in 1970’s Liverpool:

(figuratively, derogatory, offensive) Any dwarfish person or thing.


pygmy

en-adj

pygmy (comparative more pygmy, superlative most pygmy)

more pygmy (comparative)
most pygmy (superlative)

Amongst foodgrains, as we travelled from the green South and East towards the dry North and West, the pygmy crop of rice gave way to the tall bajra and jowar.

1999, Ashok V. Desai, The Price of Onions, page 73:

Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.


trickster

1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44,
The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.
Tricksters abound in folktales […] .

And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tricksters.

2015, J. Douglas Canfield, Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy, page 31:

(mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.


бес

ru-noun+

бес • (bes) m anim (genitive бе́са, nominative plural бе́сы, genitive plural бе́сов, relational adjective бесо́вский, diminutive бесёнок)

bes (romanization)
бе́са (genitive)
бе́сы (nominative plural)
бе́сов (genitive plural)
бесо́вский (adjective relational)
бесёнок (diminutive)
бе́с (nominative singular)
бе́сы (nominative plural)
бе́са (genitive singular)
бе́сов (genitive plural)
бе́су (dative singular)
бе́сам (dative plural)
бе́са (accusative singular)
бе́сов (accusative plural)
бе́сом (instrumental singular)
бе́сами (instrumental plural)
бе́се (prepositional singular)
бе́сах (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běsъ (“evil spirit”).


loup-garou

en-noun

loup-garou (plural loup-garous or loups-garous)

loup-garous (plural)
loups-garous (plural)

/ˌlu.ɡəˈɹuː/

In this respect, it is always a full moon for a loup-garou. They are never more than half-sane to begin with, and they tend to become increasingly unstable over time.


loup-garou

fr-noun

loup-garou m (plural loups-garous, feminine louve-garou)

loups-garous (plural)
louve-garou (feminine)

→ English: loup-garou

Inherited from Old French leu garoul, a pleonastic compound of leu (“wolf”) + garoul (“werewolf”); the latter from garulf, from Frankish *werawulf. Equivalent to loup + -garou.


Persephone

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

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


Persephone

la-proper noun

Persephonē f sg (genitive Persephonēs); first declension

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

From the Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

(Greek mythology) Persephone (Greek goddess)


Demeter

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

Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Ceres

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


Demeter

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

(Greek mythology) Demeter (Greek goddess)


Demeter

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


Demeter

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr).


Morpheus

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

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


Orion

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

der

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


Orion

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὠρῑ́ων (Ōrī́ōn)


Orion

la-proper noun

Ōrīōn m sg (genitive Ōrīōnis); third declension

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

→ Middle English: Orioun (learned)

English: Orion

→ Portuguese: Orion (learned)

→ Sicilian: Uriuni


Orion

(Greek mythology) Orion (a giant-hunter)


minotaur

/ˈmɪnəˌtɔː(ɹ)/

/ˈmaɪnəˌtɑɹ/

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

af

(Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Minotaur

مَنْطُور

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


Aphrodite

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

bor+

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

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

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


Aphrodite

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


Aphrodite

la-proper noun

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

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

[äpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪eː]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).


wid

wid (nominative singular)
widy (nominative plural)
wida (genitive singular)
widów (genitive plural)
widowi (dative singular)
widom (dative plural)
wida (accusative singular)
widy (accusative plural)
widem (instrumental singular)
widami (instrumental plural)
widzie (locative singular)
widach (locative plural)
widzie (singular vocative)
widy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vȋdъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéiˀdas, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyd-o-s, from *weyd- (“to see”). Cognate to Czech vid, Russian вид (vid) and Lithuanian véidas.


pandemic

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

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

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


nicker

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“mermaid”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.

And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.

1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, page 48:

A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.


Baldur

But the fate of Baldur, the most amiable and beloved of Asa gods, is, we think, by far the most pleasing of the Scandinavian Myths, although less characteristic of the warlike temper just mentioned than some of the others.

1836, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 443:

In the god Baldur the legend recognizes the god of the earth-sun, the earth force. No being of the earth can approach him with hostility. Hence also the god whom the German legend knew to be a straggler, namely Loki, cannot kill Baldur with anything belonging to the earth; he has to kill him with a branch of mistletoe, because this is a stranger among the creations of the earth, and for this reason can serve the straggler, Loki, who is not related to the earth gods.

1993, Rudolf Steiner, Apocalypse of Saint John, page 99:

1997, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity, A.D. 590—1093, unnumbered page,
A transition from the myth of Baldur to the gospel of Christ cannot have been very difficult to the Scandinavian imagination; and, indeed, it is apparent that the first ideas which the Scandinavian heathens formed of the “White Christ” were influenced by their ideas of Baldur.

The variety of myths prohibits a single answer, but of biblical myths and myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Baldur’s death, the love of Isis and Osiris, and Prometheus, it is accurate to say that they "are marked by their relevance to men's questions about their nature and place in the universe."

2008, Alan Gregory, Quenching Hell: The Mystical Theology of William Law, page 84:

(Norse mythology) The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.


Baldur

Baldur (indefinite nominative)
Baldur (accusative indefinite)
Baldri (dative indefinite)
Baldurs (genitive indefinite)

From Old Norse Baldr, from the adjective baldr (“brave”), compare Faroese baldur (“good, beautiful”).


Baldur

is-proper noun

Baldur m (proper noun, genitive singular Baldurs)

Baldurs (genitive singular)
Baldur (indefinite nominative singular)
Baldur (accusative indefinite singular)
Baldri (dative indefinite singular)
Baldurs (genitive indefinite singular)

From Old Norse Baldr, from the adjective baldr (“brave”), compare the Icelandic adjective baldur (“bold”).

Baldur, one of the Norse gods, son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.


Argus

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


Argus

la-noun

Argus m sg (genitive Argī); second declension

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


Argus

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄργος (Árgos).


dwarf

From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
Cognate with Scots dwerch; Old High German twerc (German Zwerg); Old Norse dvergr (Swedish dvärg); Old Frisian dwirg (West Frisian dwerch); Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (German Low German Dwarg, Dwarch); Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg).
The Modern English noun has undergone complex phonetic changes. The form dwarf is the regular continuation of Old English dweorg, but the plural dweorgas would have given rise to dwarrows and the oblique stem dweorge- would have led to dwery. These forms are sometimes found as the nominative singular in Middle English texts and in English dialects. A parallel case is that of Old English burg giving burgh, borough, burrow, bury.

dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants

Nidavellir, which is sometimes called Svartalfheim, where the dwarfs (who are also known as dark elves) live beneath the mountains and build their remarkable creations.

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

dwerg

being from folklore, underground dwelling nature spirit

(now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.


dwarf

en-adj

dwarf (comparative dwarfer, superlative dwarfest)

dwarfer (comparative)
dwarfest (superlative)

The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.

It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.


aspect

From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).

suunta

position in respect to points of a compass, the sun, etc.

takoto

of the position of land in relation to the sun

The Mother Goddess in her many manifestations is termed Shakti, the female energy in creation, and worshipped as the supreme female aspect of Brahman.

1995, V.P. Kanitkar, W. Owen Cole, Hinduism — An Introduction:

(religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.