mercurial

en-adj

mercurial (comparative more mercurial, superlative most mercurial)

more mercurial (comparative)
most mercurial (superlative)

/məːˈkjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/

Noun sense 1 (“(obsolete) plant known as mercury”) is from Middle English mercurial, from Anglo-Norman mercurial and Old French mercurial, or directly from their etymon, from Mercurius (“the Roman god Mercury”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns).
Later adjective and noun uses may have been directly derived from Latin mercuriālis, whence Middle English mercurial (“under the astrological influence of the planet Mercury”).

ref

From the collection of the Wellcome Library in London, England, UK.

cog

Near-synonym: Hermesian

I know the ſhape of's Legge: this is his Hand: / His Foote Mercuriall: his martiall Thigh / The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face— / Murther in heaven?

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 390, column 1:

[Benjamin] Franklin, the mechanic of his own fortune, [...] tendering, from the self-created nation, to the mightiest monarchs of Europe, the olive-branch of peace, the mercurial wand of commerce, and the amulet of protection and safety to the man of peace on the pathless ocean from the inexorable cruelty and merciless rapacity of war; [...]

1843 February 8, John Quincey Adams, “Presentation of Washington’s Sword and Franklin’s Staff”, in [Francis Preston] Blair, [John C.] Rives, editors, The Congressional Globe: […] (United States House of Representatives, 27th Congress, 3rd session), volume XII, number 16, Washington, D.C.: Published by Blair and Rives; […], published 10 February 1843, →OCLC, pages 254–255:

(not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.

Mercurial

pertaining to the Roman god Mercury or planet Mercury


kaj

From Armenian քաջ (kʻaǰ), քաջք (kʻaǰkʻ).

There existed destructive female demons called parik, whose husbands were known as kaj.

2006, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3, pt.1: Iran, Armenia and Georgia, page 611

(Armenian mythology) A spirit of storm and wind;


draconian

en-adj

draconian (comparative more draconian, superlative most draconian)

more draconian (comparative)
most draconian (superlative)

From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ian, from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn), after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws. See δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).

The Soviet regime was draconian.

The mayor announced draconian budget cuts today.

The conflict in the countryside resulted in a far more draconian punishment. The Southern Cross flag flew over the camps of striking shearers, who in revenge for their victimisation burned grass, fences, buildings and even riverboats[…]

2009, Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, page 125:

Perhaps lessons had already been learned from the Draconian infrastructure cuts on the Waterloo-Exeter route.

2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 65:

And that movement, while it was eventually crushed through the extensive use of the draconian lese majeste law, shattered the taboo, by calling openly, for the first time, for the powers and financing of the monarchy to be accountable.

2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World):


thánh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 聖.
The informal adjectival sense "naive, credulous, gullible" and nominal sense "idiot, moron, simpleton" likely semantically develop from senses "saintly" and "saint" respectively, thus paralleling silly and crétin each in that order; see those entries for etymologies and semantic developments.

Thánh Phan-xi-cô

c. 53 - 57 CE, 1 Corinthians 1:2-3; 2001 Vietnamese translation from the New Vietnamese Bible version; 2021 English translation from the New Revised Standard Version
Kính gửi Hội Thánh của Đức Chúa Trời tại thành phố Cô-rinh-tô, tức là những người đã được thánh hóa trong Chúa Cứu Thế Giê-su, cũng được gọi là các thánh, cùng với tất cả những người ở khắp mọi nơi cầu khẩn danh Chúa Cứu Thế Giê-su, Chúa của họ và của chúng ta. Nguyện xin Đức Chúa Trời, Cha chúng ta và Chúa Cứu Thế Giê-su ban ân sủng và bình an cho anh chị em.

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


龍

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (龍):
* → Japanese: 竜(りゅう) (ryū)
* → Korean: 룡>용(龍) (ryong>yong)
* → Vietnamese: long (龍)

→ Indonesian: liong

desctree

→ Proto-Vietic: *-roːŋ
Tho:
Cuoi Cham: ʐoŋ²
Lang Lo: ʐoŋ²
Viet-Muong:
Muong: rồng
Middle Vietnamese: 蠬 (ròu᷄), 𧏵 (ròu᷄)
Vietnamese: rồng

→ Old Turkic: 𐰠𐰇 (lü)

→ Middle Mongol: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ／луу (luu)

→ Zhuang: lungz

Old Turkic language
Proto-Hmong-Mien language
Proto-Vietic language
Turkish language
Vietnamese language
White Hmong language

Characters in the same phonetic series (龍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes.
Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of 立 and ⺼/月. Note that 竜 existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around.
Compare 𣎆, which represents a particular kind of dragon.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”). Cognate with Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon; thunder”). The STEDT database also lists 隆 (OC *ɡ·ruːŋ, “thunder; sound of thunder”) and 雹 (OC *bruːɡ, “hail”) as cognates. Also compare 靐 (OC *brɯŋs, “sound of thunder”) and 霹靂 (OC *pʰeːɡ reːɡ, “thunder”).
This word is found in many languages of the region. Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *-roŋ (“dragon”) (White Hmong zaj), Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ (“dragon”) (Vietnamese rồng), Vietnamese thuồng luồng (“serpent-like monster”), Khmer រោង (roong, “year of the dragon”), Thai มะโรง (má-roong, “dragon; year of the dragon”), Lao ມະໂລງ (ma lōng, “year of the dragon”), perhaps also Old Turkic [script needed]|[Term?] (*-lan, suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal) (Turkish aslan (“lion”), kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”)).

cog-lite

龙
㡣
䮾
䰱
竜
龒
𠉒
𠊋
𢀀
𢄫
𢅛
𥪐
𥪑
𥪖
𥪢
𥫆
𥫈
𦱉
𦱸

(mythology) Chinese dragon (Classifier: 條／条 m c h; 尾 mn)


龍

ja-noun

龍(りゅう) • (ryū)

a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with a Chinese dragon design


龍

ja-pos

龍(りゅう) • (Ryū)

(astronomy) Short for りゅう座 (Ryūza): the constellation Draco


Lemuria

Lemuria (continent)
en:Lemuria (disambiguation)

(mythology) A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.


Atlantis

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

der

How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!

1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule:

I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.

1918, Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation:

A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantida

mythical country said to have sunk into the ocean


lemur

lemur (nominative singular)
lemury (nominative plural)
lemura (genitive singular)
lemurów (genitive plural)
lemurowi (dative singular)
lemurom (dative plural)
lemura (accusative singular)
lemury (accusative plural)
lemurem (instrumental singular)
lemurami (instrumental plural)
lemurze (locative singular)
lemurach (locative plural)
lemurze (singular vocative)
lemury (plural vocative)

Internationalism; compare English lemur, French lémur, German Lemur, ultimately from Latin lemurēs.

(Roman mythology) lemures (spirit or ghost of the dead, considered as malignant)


lemur

lemur (indefinite nominative singular)
lemurs (genitive indefinite singular)
lemuren (definite nominative singular)
lemurens (definite genitive singular)
lemurer (indefinite nominative plural)
lemurers (genitive indefinite plural)
lemurerna (definite nominative plural)
lemurernas (definite genitive plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin lemures (“spirits”). First attested in 1861.

ref

SAOB

lemur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)


interpreter

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪɾɚ/

/ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ/

/ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə/

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

der

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

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

linguister

colonial contexts, particularly West & Central Africa

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

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

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

tolk

one who interprets a language — see also dragoman

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

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


パン

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).


Larissa

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


way

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.

don't let the door hit you on the way out

have one's head screwed on the right way

his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

the real treasure is the friends we made along the way

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

there's more than one way to peel an orange

the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)

(Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

usko

paganism: dedication to a specific deity or craft


paradise

en-noun

paradise (countable and uncountable, plural paradises)

→ Fijian: parataisi

→ Maori: pararaiia

→ Niuean: parataiso

→ Tokelauan: palataiho

From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.

Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

Up into Heav’n from Paradise in hast
Th’ Angelic Guards ascended,

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 17-18:

Government like dress is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

1776, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Philadelphia, page 1:

If all was good and fair we met,
This earth had been the Paradise
It never look’d to human eyes
Since Adam left his garden yet.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIV, page 41:

I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(Abrahamic religions) A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.


fate

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

From Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

(mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Fate

རླུང་རྟའི་ལྷ་མོ (rlung rta'i lha mo, literally “goddess of the wind horse, where ‘wind horse’ means fortune/fame/luck”)


Python

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

programming language
programming language

(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.


Python

John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.

(informal) Any member of the comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin.


Acheron

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

af

And pull her out of Acheron by the heels

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

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

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

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

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


antelope

→ Irish: antalóp

→ Manx: antelope

From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.

(archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.


Zeus

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

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


Zeus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).


Zeus

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


Zeus

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


Zeus

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

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


Zeus

→ Vietnamese: Dớt

→ Persian: زئوس (ze'us)


Zeus

la-proper noun

Zeus m sg (genitive Diōs); third declension

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

[d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s̠]

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

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

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


Zeus

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

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

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


Zeus

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


Zeus

sk-proper noun

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

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


Zeus

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)


demo

(computing) demo (a software edition of limited functionality)


demo

pt-adj

demo m or f (plural demos, not comparable)

(computing, of a software) of limited functionality


poltergeist

poltergeist (nominative singular)
poltergeisty (nominative plural)
poltergeista (genitive singular)
poltergeistów (genitive plural)
poltergeistowi (dative singular)
poltergeistom (dative plural)
poltergeista (accusative singular)
poltergeisty (accusative plural)
poltergeistem (instrumental singular)
poltergeistami (instrumental plural)
poltergeiście (locative singular)
poltergeistach (locative plural)
poltergeiście (singular vocative)
poltergeisty (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from German Poltergeist.

ubor

(parapsychology) poltergeist (unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about)


doppelganger

/ˈdɒp(ə)lˌɡɛŋə/

/ˈdɑp(ə)lˌɡɛŋəɹ/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-doppelganger.wav

Borrowed from German Doppelgänger (“ghostly spirit”, literally “double-walker”).

bor

A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.

(fantasy) A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.


haunt

en-verb

haunt (third-person singular simple present haunts, present participle haunting, simple past and past participle haunted)

haunts (present singular third-person)
haunting (participle present)
haunted (participle past)
haunted (past)

From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village”).
Cognate with Old English hǣman (“to cohabit, lie with, marry”); related to Old English hām (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source. Another descendant from the French is Dutch hanteren, whence German hantieren, Swedish hantera, Danish håndtere. More at home.

cog

A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.

You wrong me Sir,thus ſtill to haunt my houſe.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 52, column 1:

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

those cares that haunt the court and town

1713, Jonathan Swift, Imitation of Horace, Book I. Ep. VII:

(transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

[…]haunte thi silf to pite [or pitee].

c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume I (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, I. Timothy 4:7, columns 1, 2:

(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.

a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:

(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.


haunt

The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:


dis

In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.

1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, E Lumley, page 116:

A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir

1993, Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, page 113:

Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.

1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 67:

(Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.


dis

disa (definite singular)
diser (indefinite plural)
disene (definite plural)

From Old Norse dís f, form Proto-Germanic *dīsiz (“(demi-)goddess; virgin”)


nanus

la-noun

nānus m (genitive nānī); second declension

nānus (canonical masculine)
nānī (genitive)
nānus (nominative singular)
nānī (nominative plural)
nānī (genitive singular)
nānōrum (genitive plural)
nānō (dative singular)
nānīs (dative plural)
nānum (accusative singular)
nānōs (accusative plural)
nānō (ablative singular)
nānīs (ablative plural)
nāne (singular vocative)
nānī (plural vocative)

Asturian: nanu

Catalan: nan

→ English: nano-

French: nain

Galician: anano

Italian: nano

Portuguese: anão

Romanian: nan

Sardinian: nanu

Sicilian: nanu

Spanish: enano

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”).


centaurus

la-noun

centaurus m (genitive centaurī); second declension

centaurī (genitive)
centaurus (nominative singular)
centaurī (nominative plural)
centaurī (genitive singular)
centaurōrum (genitive plural)
centaurō (dative singular)
centaurīs (dative plural)
centaurum (accusative singular)
centaurōs (accusative plural)
centaurō (ablative singular)
centaurīs (ablative plural)
centaure (singular vocative)
centaurī (plural vocative)

Catalan: centaure

English: centaur

French: centaure

Galician: centauro

Italian: centauro

Portuguese: centauro

Romanian: centaur

Spanish: centauro

[kɛn̪ˈt̪äu̯rʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a savage race, dwelling between Pelion and Ossa”).


picus

la-noun

pīcus m (genitive pīcī); second declension

pīcus (canonical masculine)
pīcī (genitive)
pīcus (nominative singular)
pīcī (nominative plural)
pīcī (genitive singular)
pīcōrum (genitive plural)
pīcō (dative singular)
pīcīs (dative plural)
pīcum (accusative singular)
pīcōs (accusative plural)
pīcō (ablative singular)
pīcīs (ablative plural)
pīce (singular vocative)
pīcī (plural vocative)

Asturian: picatueru

Catalan: picot

French: pic, pivert

Friulian: pic

desc

Piedmontese: pic, pions, picons, picassa

Galician: piquelo, peto (perhaps)

Italian: picchio

Occitan: picot

Sicilian: picu

Spanish: pito, pico

Translingual: Picus

From Proto-Italic *pikos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīca (“magpie”).
Romance evidence points to a form with -cc-, perhaps onomatopoeic and/or influenced by Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to strike, sting, peck”) and/or Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). Cf. Vulgar Latin *pīcca (“pick-axe”).
Cognate with Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

pīcca

reconstructed, Western Romance territory


drake

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.


drake

Dutch: draak
Afrikaans: draak

Limburgish: draagk, draogk

West Flemish: droake

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).


drake

English: drake

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.


drake

draken (definite singular)
draker (indefinite plural)
drakene (definite plural)

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.


drake

draken (definite singular)
drakar (indefinite plural)
drakane (definite plural)

a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head


nix

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

"That's a clean lift from Kipling—or is it Conan Doyle? Anyway, I've read something just like it before. Say, kid, guess what these magazine guys get for a full page ad.? Nix. That's just like a woman. Three thousand straight. Fact."

1912, Edna Ferber, “Maymeys from Cuba”, in Buttered Side Down:

"I can take you down, Miss Conover, but I cannot take Mr. Hawksley. When the boss gives me an order I obey it—if I possibly can. On the day the boss tells me you can go strolling, I'll give you the key to the city. Until then, nix! No use arguing, Mr. Hawksley."

1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 26, in The Drums of Jeopardy:


nymphe

→ Turkish: nemf

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


nymphe

la-noun

nymphē f (genitive nymphēs); first declension

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

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


hydra

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

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

bor+

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

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

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

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


hydra

hydra (nominative singular)
hydry (nominative plural)
hydry (genitive singular)
hydr (genitive plural)
hydrze (dative singular)
hydrom (dative plural)
hydrę (accusative singular)
hydry (accusative plural)
hydrą (instrumental singular)
hydrami (instrumental plural)
hydrze (locative singular)
hydrach (locative plural)
hydro (singular vocative)
hydry (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin hydra. Doublet of nutria and wydra.

(fantasy) hydra (dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed)


manticore

/ˈmæntɪˌkɔɹ/

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

der

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

2005, “Circus Maximus”, performed by Clutch:

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


urchin

From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.

(historical) A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.


alce

Ar. a fesse betw. three alces’ or griffins’ heads erased sa.

1842, John Burke, John Bernard Burke, A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London: […] Edward Churton, […]:

Alce. The Male Griffin. […] Alice, or Alce. The Male Gryphon.

[1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry with Upwards of Two Thousand Five Hundred Illustrations, London: Kent & Cᵒ […]; East Dereham: W. H. Brown, […], page 4, column 2:

XV. CHARGES taken from MONSTERS. Monsters with Wings. Griffin. Dragon. Alce. Opinicus. […] Alce. See Griffin. […] The term Alce is given, as if used by writers for a kind of griffin, but no example can be quoted.

[1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, new edition, Oxford, Oxon, London: James Parker and Co., pages xvii, 9, and 294:

[…] griffin seems to have an existence in theory only; nevertheless he must be catalogued, together with the word alce, which is accepted (though not without dissent) as the individual name for the horned griffin.

[1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, 2nd edition, MacGibbon & Kee, page 149:

Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings; in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called an ‘alce’ or a ‘keythong.’

[2001, Osita Iroku, A Day in the Life of God, →ISBN, page 85:

Folks gave the beast many names. Griffin, griffon, gryphon, alce, keythong, gryphen, griffen, gryphen, and opinicus…

[2009, Benjamin Towe, The First Wandmaker (Elfdreams of Parallan; II), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:

"It has no wings! I thought that griffins were lions with an eagle head and wings." / "I'm sure that this female Alce doesn't prefer to be called 'it,'" Ryu said pointedly. / "Alce?" / "Yes. A so-called wingless griffin. But they are two different creatures."

2009, Nicole Zoltack, Woman of Honor (The Kingdom of Arnhem; 1), Newhall, Calif.: Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

The more common representation of the griffin is the female griffin, a creature with wings. Male griffins do NOT have wings and are termed “alces” or “keythongs.”

[2009 June, The Celator, volume 23, number 6:

They’d befriended him because he fed them the tastiest morsels, Alce, the gilded griffin, preferred Marvel while Keythong, the agate stone one, craved DC Comics.

2010, Shirin Dubbin, Dreams’ Dark Kiss, Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:

figure 11 Cloven-hoofed, wingless griffin (also called an alce or a keythong in later heraldry) symbolizing the sun, and two-legged dragon (wyvern) symbolizing the moon.

[2011, Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 58:

Alce / Variations: Anthalops, Alcida, Calopus, Keythong, Panthalops, Tapopus / In heraldic symbology the alce is a wingless, male griffin with rays or spikes of gold protruding from several parts of its body; on occasion it also sports two long straight horns atop its head. A pair of such creatures is present on the coat of arms of the Earl of Ormande.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 22, column 1:

Adventurer’s Tip: Do not confuse [the griffin] with similar hybrids, such as the alce (a wingless griffin) or the alphyn (a lion with eagle claws for front legs).

2019, Blanca Martínez de Rituerto, Joe Sparrow, Dungeons & Drawings: An Illustrated Compendium of Creatures, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:

(rare, mythology) A mythical beast resembling a griffin with no wings, often classified as a male griffin.


griffin

Chinese Pidgin English: griffin

From Middle English griffoun, from Old French griffon, from Latin gryphus, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

A large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.


fawn

English: faun


hippogriff

From French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + γρύψ (grúps, “griffin”).

af

To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.

1732, July 18, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 12 published 1801, page 478

Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe, ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, …
So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph, or at least some kind genius, …

1753, November 12, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, published with English translation in 1779 in Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, second edition, volume 3, lettre LXXIII, pages 298–299

Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…

1800 Dec, Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, volume 10, number 66, page 407:

I imagine a Hippogryph. The Hippogryph is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the Hippogryph, you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.

1831, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 52, page 164:

Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus.

1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv:

a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.


chupacabras

→ English: chupacabra, chupacabras

Verb-object compound, composed of chupa (“to suck”) + cabras (“goats”), literally “goatsucker”.


centaur

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

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


centaur

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

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


basilisk

From Middle English basilicke, borrowed from Old French basilique, from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos) (literally "minor king or chieftain", possibly based on descriptions or rare encounters with different types of cobra which have crown-like patterns on their head; the "deadly gaze" could have been from the spitting cobra's ability to spit venom into the eyes of predators or prey from a distance), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). The cognitohazard/infohazard sense is by analogy with the deadly gaze of the mythical creature.

the deadly look of the basilisk

The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]

1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Cockatrice”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 124:

And without more ado she […] fixed her wonderful eyes upon me - more deadly than any Basilisk's - and pierced me through and through with their beauty, and sent her light laugh ringing through the air like chimes of silver bells.

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

As a revolutionary act of prophecy in an age of political science, Wissenkunst is a unique and anarchic expression of freedom, and not a new and aspiring system of indoctrination. If Wissenkunst is itself turned into political apologetics, then the fabulous plumed serpent is turned into a monster, a basilisk.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 249:

(mythology) A mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze is deadly.


succubus

Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”).

der

Coordinate term: incubus

1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.

(mediaeval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.


incubus

From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubō (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubō (“to lie upon, to hatch”, from in- (“on”) + cubō (“to lie down”)).

it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] .

Burton with W.H. Gass, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB Classics ser. (New York: New York Review Books, 2001, orig. 1932), vol. 1, p. 249

A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.


leviathan

From Middle English levyethan, levyathan, etc., from Late Latin leviathan, a transliteration of Biblical Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liv'yatán).

Canſt thou dravv out Leuiathan vvith an hooke? or his tongue vvith a corde vvhich thou letteſt dovvne?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:1, column 1:

The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan.

1904, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

(biblical, mythology) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean.


unicorn

From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”). Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.

God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the ſtrength of an Vnicorne: he ſhall eate vp the nations his enemies, and ſhall breake their bones, and pierce them thorow with his arrowes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:8, column 1:

רְאֵם ראם#Hebrew

(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.


nympha

la-noun

nympha f (genitive nymphae); first declension

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

Asturian: ninfa

Catalan: nimfa

desctree

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

Italian: ninfa

Portuguese: ninfa

Romanian: nimfă

Sicilian: ninfa

Spanish: ninfa

Welsh: nymff

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

der+

(Greek mythology) nymph (mythical demigoddess)


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.

1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost

1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:

For a moment I was puzzled, but presently, of course, it struck me that he must have seen Ayesha, wrapped in her grave-like garment, and been deceived by the extraordinary undulating smoothness of her walk into a belief that she was a white ghost gliding towards him.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.


nymph

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

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

нимфа

mythology: water, forest or mountain spirit


Venus

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arch like rainbows, and are Cinderellian in size.

1888 June 2, “Senoritas of Brazil. [Chicago Mail.]”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XLVI, number 154, page 13, column 3:

(Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.


Venus

(Roman mythology) the goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity;


Venus

Venus (nominative singular)
Venukset (nominative plural)
Venus (accusative nominative singular)
Venukset (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksen (accusative genitive singular)
Venukset (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksen (genitive singular)
Venusten (genitive plural)
Venuksien (genitive plural)
Venusta (partitive singular)
Venuksia (partitive plural)
Venuksessa (inessive singular)
Venuksissa (inessive plural)
Venuksesta (elative singular)
Venuksista (elative plural)
Venukseen (illative singular)
Venuksiin (illative plural)
Venuksella (adessive singular)
Venuksilla (adessive plural)
Venukselta (ablative singular)
Venuksilta (ablative plural)
Venukselle (allative singular)
Venuksille (allative plural)
Venuksena (essive singular)
Venuksina (essive plural)
Venukseksi (singular translative)
Venuksiksi (plural translative)
Venuksetta (abessive singular)
Venuksitta (abessive plural)
Venuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Venukseni (nominative singular)
Venukseni (nominative plural)
Venukseni (accusative nominative singular)
Venukseni (accusative nominative plural)
Venukseni (accusative genitive singular)
Venukseni (accusative genitive plural)
Venukseni (genitive singular)
Venusteni (genitive plural)
Venuksieni (genitive plural)
Venustani (partitive singular)
Venuksiani (partitive plural)
Venuksessani (inessive singular)
Venuksissani (inessive plural)
Venuksestani (elative singular)
Venuksistani (elative plural)
Venukseeni (illative singular)
Venuksiini (illative plural)
Venuksellani (adessive singular)
Venuksillani (adessive plural)
Venukseltani (ablative singular)
Venuksiltani (ablative plural)
Venukselleni (allative singular)
Venuksilleni (allative plural)
Venuksenani (essive singular)
Venuksinani (essive plural)
Venuksekseni (singular translative)
Venuksikseni (plural translative)
Venuksettani (abessive singular)
Venuksittani (abessive plural)
Venuksineni (comitative plural)
Venuksesi (nominative singular)
Venuksesi (nominative plural)
Venuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksesi (genitive singular)
Venustesi (genitive plural)
Venuksiesi (genitive plural)
Venustasi (partitive singular)
Venuksiasi (partitive plural)
Venuksessasi (inessive singular)
Venuksissasi (inessive plural)
Venuksestasi (elative singular)
Venuksistasi (elative plural)
Venukseesi (illative singular)
Venuksiisi (illative plural)
Venuksellasi (adessive singular)
Venuksillasi (adessive plural)
Venukseltasi (ablative singular)
Venuksiltasi (ablative plural)
Venuksellesi (allative singular)
Venuksillesi (allative plural)
Venuksenasi (essive singular)
Venuksinasi (essive plural)
Venukseksesi (singular translative)
Venuksiksesi (plural translative)
Venuksettasi (abessive singular)
Venuksittasi (abessive plural)
Venuksinesi (comitative plural)
Venuksemme (nominative singular)
Venuksemme (nominative plural)
Venuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksemme (genitive singular)
Venustemme (genitive plural)
Venuksiemme (genitive plural)
Venustamme (partitive singular)
Venuksiamme (partitive plural)
Venuksessamme (inessive singular)
Venuksissamme (inessive plural)
Venuksestamme (elative singular)
Venuksistamme (elative plural)
Venukseemme (illative singular)
Venuksiimme (illative plural)
Venuksellamme (adessive singular)
Venuksillamme (adessive plural)
Venukseltamme (ablative singular)
Venuksiltamme (ablative plural)
Venuksellemme (allative singular)
Venuksillemme (allative plural)
Venuksenamme (essive singular)
Venuksinamme (essive plural)
Venukseksemme (singular translative)
Venuksiksemme (plural translative)
Venuksettamme (abessive singular)
Venuksittamme (abessive plural)
Venuksinemme (comitative plural)
Venuksenne (nominative singular)
Venuksenne (nominative plural)
Venuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksenne (genitive singular)
Venustenne (genitive plural)
Venuksienne (genitive plural)
Venustanne (partitive singular)
Venuksianne (partitive plural)
Venuksessanne (inessive singular)
Venuksissanne (inessive plural)
Venuksestanne (elative singular)
Venuksistanne (elative plural)
Venukseenne (illative singular)
Venuksiinne (illative plural)
Venuksellanne (adessive singular)
Venuksillanne (adessive plural)
Venukseltanne (ablative singular)
Venuksiltanne (ablative plural)
Venuksellenne (allative singular)
Venuksillenne (allative plural)
Venuksenanne (essive singular)
Venuksinanne (essive plural)
Venukseksenne (singular translative)
Venuksiksenne (plural translative)
Venuksettanne (abessive singular)
Venuksittanne (abessive plural)
Venuksinenne (comitative plural)
Venuksensa (nominative singular)
Venuksensa (nominative plural)
Venuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
Venuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
Venuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
Venuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
Venuksensa (genitive singular)
Venustensa (genitive plural)
Venuksiensa (genitive plural)
Venustaan (partitive singular)
Venustansa (partitive singular)
Venuksiaan (partitive plural)
Venuksiansa (partitive plural)
Venuksessaan (inessive singular)
Venuksessansa (inessive singular)
Venuksissaan (inessive plural)
Venuksissansa (inessive plural)
Venuksestaan (elative singular)
Venuksestansa (elative singular)
Venuksistaan (elative plural)
Venuksistansa (elative plural)
Venukseensa (illative singular)
Venuksiinsa (illative plural)
Venuksellaan (adessive singular)
Venuksellansa (adessive singular)
Venuksillaan (adessive plural)
Venuksillansa (adessive plural)
Venukseltaan (ablative singular)
Venukseltansa (ablative singular)
Venuksiltaan (ablative plural)
Venuksiltansa (ablative plural)
Venukselleen (allative singular)
Venuksellensa (allative singular)
Venuksilleen (allative plural)
Venuksillensa (allative plural)
Venuksenaan (essive singular)
Venuksenansa (essive singular)
Venuksinaan (essive plural)
Venuksinansa (essive plural)
Venuksekseen (singular translative)
Venukseksensa (singular translative)
Venuksikseen (plural translative)
Venuksiksensa (plural translative)
Venuksettaan (abessive singular)
Venuksettansa (abessive singular)
Venuksittaan (abessive plural)
Venuksittansa (abessive plural)
Venuksineen (comitative plural)
Venuksinensa (comitative plural)


Venus

is-proper noun

Venus f (proper noun, genitive singular Venusar)

Venusar (genitive singular)
Venus (indefinite nominative singular)
Venus (accusative indefinite singular)
Venusi (accusative indefinite singular)
Venus (dative indefinite singular)
Venusi (dative indefinite singular)
Venusar (genitive indefinite singular)


Venus

la-proper noun

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

Veneris (genitive)
Venus (nominative singular)
Venerēs (nominative plural)
Veneris (genitive singular)
Venerum (genitive plural)
Venerī (dative singular)
Veneribus (dative plural)
Venerem (accusative singular)
Venerēs (accusative plural)
Venere (ablative singular)
Veneribus (ablative plural)
Venus (singular vocative)
Venerēs (plural vocative)

→ French: Vénus

→ Italian: Venere

→ Middle English: Venus
English: Venus

→ Portuguese: Vénus, Vênus (Brazil)

Sicilian: Vènniri

→ Spanish: Venus

From venus (“loveliness”), see there for more.

sine Cerere et Līberō frīget Venus

161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 732

without Ceres and Liber, Venus freezes
(without food and wine, love doesn't thrive)

(Roman mythology) Venus (goddess of love and beauty)


Venus

English: Venus

The Roman goddess governing love and sexuality; Venus.


Venus

Borrowed from French Vénus, from Latin Venus.


ren

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn, r:n-A2

For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.

(Egyptian mythology) One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.


dragon

→ Fijian: drekoni

→ Japanese: ドラゴン (doragon)

desc

→ Korean: 드래곤 (deuraegon), 드래건 (deuraegeon)

→ Marathi: ड्रॅगन (ḍrĕgan)

→ Marshallese: tūrāikōn

→ Niuean: tarākoni

→ Swahili: dragoni

→ Tamil: டிராகன் (ṭirākaṉ)

→ Yoruba: dírágónì

From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Displaced native Old English draca—a doublet of dragon, as are Draco, dracone, and dragoon.

taniwha

Maori mythological creature similar to a dragon

My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.


dragon

fr-noun

dragon m (plural dragons, feminine dragonne)

→ Albanian: dragun

→ Armenian: դրագուն (dragun)

→ Azerbaijani: draqun

→ Bashkir: драгун (dragun)

→ Belarusian: драгун (drahun)

→ Breton: dragun

→ Bulgarian: драгун (dragun)

→ Catalan: dragon

→ Cebuano: dragun

→ Crimean Tatar: dragun

→ Czech: dragoun

→ Danish: dragon

→ English: dragoon

→ Esperanto: dragono

→ Estonian: tragun

→ Gagauz: dragun

→ Georgian: დრაგუნი (draguni)

→ German: Dragoner
→ Dutch: dragonder

→ Greek: δραγόνος (dragónos)

→ Hebrew: דרגון (dragún)

→ Hungarian: dragonyos

→ Icelandic: dragoní

→ Ido: dragono

→ Irish: dragún

→ Japanese: ドラグーン (doragūn)

→ Kazakh: драгун (dragun)

→ Kyrgyz: драгун (dragun)

→ Latvian: dragūns

→ Lithuanian: dragūnas

→ Macedonian: драгун (dragun)

→ Mongolian: драгун (dragun)

→ Norwegian: dragon

→ Occitan: dragon

→ Polish: dragon

→ Romanian: dragon

→ Russian: драгун (dragun)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: драґун (dragun)

→ Serbo-Croatian: dragun / драгун

→ Slovak: dragún

→ Slovene: dragonec

→ Spanish: dragón

→ Swedish: dragon
→ Finnish: rakuuna

→ Tagalog: dragun

→ Tajik: драгун (dragun)

→ Tatar: драгун (drağun)

→ Turkish: dragon

→ Turkmen: dragun

→ Ukrainian: драгун (drahun)

→ Uzbek: dragun

→ Waray-Waray: dragun

→ Welsh: dragŵn

→ Zazaki: dragun

Inherited from Old French dragon, perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drac.


dragon

dragoni (plural)
dragon (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
dragonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
dragoni (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
dragonii (accusative definite nominative plural)
dragon (indefinite singular)
dragonului (definite singular)
dragoni (indefinite plural)
dragonilor (definite plural)
dragonule (singular vocative)
dragonilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem. Doublet of the inherited drac (“devil”).

(astronomy, often capitalized, with definite articulation) Draco (constellation)


dragon

Borrowed from Spanish dragón, from Latin dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).


imp

From Middle English impe, ympe (“tree branch; shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling; tree”) [and other forms], from Old English impa, impe (“shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling”), from impian, ġeimpian (“to graft”) (see etymology 1).

"Yes, there are a great, great many coming after us; at least a score," said the lad.—"Well, that's the troll," said the horse; "he is coming after us with his imps."

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “The Widow’s Son”, in H[ans] L[ien] Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 218:

It was as if there were little imps dancing in my mouth, and every so often, when a situation arose, they'd get together, giggle wickedly, and try to push words out of my open mouth.

1981 December 1, Ruth Geller, “The Lesbian Teacher”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 5:

(chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).

чарцяня́

Concourſe, and noiſe, and toil, he ever fled; / Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray / Of ſquabbling imps; but to the foreſt ſped, / Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head; […]

1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 10:

[…] I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist, ma'am; […]

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Further Adventures of Toad”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 221:

(by extension)
(often humorous) A mischievous child.


Saturn

From Old English Sætern, from Latin Sāturnus, probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre), plausibly influenced by Latin satus, past participle of serere (“to sow”).

(Roman mythology) The god of fertility and agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Kronos.


Saturn

Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnovi (dative singular)
Saturnu (dative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturne (singular vocative)
Saturnovi (locative singular)
Saturnu (locative singular)
Saturnem (instrumental singular)


Saturn

de-proper noun

Saturn m (proper noun, strong, genitive Saturns or Saturn)

Saturns (genitive)
Saturn (genitive)
Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturns (genitive singular)
Saturn (genitive singular)
Saturn (dative singular)
Saturn (accusative singular)


Saturn

Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnowi (dative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturnem (instrumental singular)
Saturnie (locative singular)
Saturnie (singular vocative)


Saturn

Sàturn (canonical masculine)
Са̀турн (Cyrillic)
Saturn (nominative singular)
Saturna (genitive singular)
Saturnu (dative singular)
Saturn (accusative singular)
Saturna (accusative singular)
Saturne (singular vocative)
Saturnu (locative singular)
Saturnom (instrumental singular)


Saturn

Satúrn (animate canonical masculine)
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Satúrn (nominative singular)
Satúrna (genitive singular)
Satúrnu (dative singular)
Satúrn (accusative singular)
Satúrnu (locative singular)
Satúrnom (instrumental singular)
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Satúrn (nominative singular)
Satúrna (genitive singular)
Satúrnu (dative singular)
Satúrna (accusative singular)
Satúrnu (locative singular)
Satúrnom (instrumental singular)


sphinx

From Middle English Spynx, from Latin Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps either from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) (whence also sphincter), of Pre-Greek origin, or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">šzp-ꜥnḫ</i>

[W]hatsoe'er of strange / Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, / Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, / Dark Æthiopia in her desert hills. / Conceals.

1815 September 10 – December 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude”, in Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems, London: […] Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, […]; and Carpenter and Son, […] [b]y S[amuel] Hamilton, […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 9:

(mythology) A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.

أَبُو الهَوْل

mythology: creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal


sphinx

fr-noun

sphinx m (plural sphinx, feminine sphinge)

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

(Egyptian mythology, Greek mythology) sphinx


sphinx

la-noun

sphinx f (genitive sphingis); third declension

sphingis (genitive)
sphinx (nominative singular)
sphingēs (nominative plural)
sphinges (nominative plural)
sphingis (genitive singular)
sphingos (genitive singular)
sphingum (genitive plural)
sphingī (dative singular)
sphingibus (dative plural)
sphingem (accusative singular)
sphinga (accusative singular)
sphingēs (accusative plural)
sphingas (accusative plural)
sphinge (ablative singular)
sphingibus (ablative plural)
sphinx (singular vocative)
sphingēs (plural vocative)
sphinges (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).


fairy

en-noun

fairy (countable and uncountable, plural fairies)

From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from Latin fāta (“goddess of fate”). Equivalent to fey + -ry. Attested in English from about 1330, in King Alisaunder, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" ("that thou herdest is fairye") and shortly thereafter "realm of the fays, fairy-land" and "the inhabitants of fairyland, collectively". The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but became common only in the 16th century, perhaps due to reinterpreting phrases like faerie knight.

"They used to say there were fairies in that hill, I must tell you!"

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 51:

(mythology) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.


gnome

From French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).

He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes, spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.

1811, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 25, page 138:

Day belongs to the earthlier deities—the stern, the harsh, and the cold. Gnomes are the spirits of daily hours. Toil, thought, and strife, beset us: we have to work, to quarrel, and to struggle: we have to take our neighbours in; or, at least, to avoid their doing so by us.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74:

Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
A gnome can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The gnome cannot, however, provide air for that person[…].

2006, Greg Lynch, RuneQuest Monsters, page 52:

Elementals are the consciousness guiding the four classical elements of earth, fire, air, and water. These elementals are depicted as gnomes, salamanders, diminutive faeries known as sylphs, and merfolk, known as undines, respectively.

2007, Christopher Penczak, Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth and Healing for the New Aeon, page 413:

(magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.

When the trees were disposed of, the gnomes vanished again.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 226:

There were not one but four gnomes standing at his feet. “I nearly trod on you,” Daniel said. “What are you doing here?”
The gnomes just stood, looking up at him.

2011, Ross Lawhead, The Realms Thereunder, page 251:

(mythology, fantasy) One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually smaller than dwarves and more focused on engineering than mining.

The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.


gnome

fr-noun

gnome m (plural gnomes, feminine gnomide)

→ Danish: gnom

→ English: gnome

→ Norwegian Bokmål: gnom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: gnom

From New Latin gnomus, not attested classically. .


worm

English: worm

Scots: worm, wirm

From Old English wyrm, from Proto-West Germanic *wurmi, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis.

A dragon, drake, or wyrm (mythological fire-breathing winged lizard)

A beast that inhabits Hell; causing suffering to its inhabitants.


cornucopia

en-noun

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

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

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

bor+

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

قرن الوفرة

mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink


cornucopia

la-noun

cornūcōpia f (genitive cornūcōpiae); first declension

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

→ English: cornucopia

→ Italian: cornucopia

→ Portuguese: cornucópia

→ Spanish: cornucopia

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


hobbit

en-noun

hobbit (plural hobbits or (humorous) hobbitses)

hobbits (plural)
hobbitses (humorous plural)

Denham Tracts
Hobbit (word)
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
hobbit

Coined in its current sense by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, featured in the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Jocularly etymologized by him as from a hypothetical Old English *holbytla (literally “hole-builder”), from hol (“hole”) + bytlan (“to build”) + -a (“-er”). Tolkien was possibly influenced by similar terms for house-sprites (probably from Hob, a hypocoristic form of Robert), or an isolated mention of hobbits (with hobgoblins following immediately afterwards) in a list of sprites and bogies from the 19th-century Denham Tracts.

pseudo-loan

A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.


hobbit

Unadapted borrowing from English hobbit; coined by J.R.R. Tolkien.

hobbit (a member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet)


hobbit

hobbiten (definite singular)
hobbiter (indefinite plural)
hobbitene (definite plural)

From English hobbit; coined by J.R.R. Tolkien.


hobbit

hobbiten (definite singular)
hobbitar (indefinite plural)
hobbitane (definite plural)


bunyip

The bunyip here was considered to have a magical power over humans, causing them considerable misfortune. Places where there were many eels tended to be where bunyips lived, as this was their food. On one occasion, Aboriginal people claimed that a bunyip lured a woman to her death by distracting her with a large catch of eels. It was considered extremely bad luck to kill or injure a bunyip.

2007, Janet Parker, Julie Stanton, editors, Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies, page 387:

According to the stories, the Bunyip comes in many different shapes and sizes—some are covered in feathers, while others have scales like a crocodile. Most Aboriginal drawings show the Bunyip with a tail like a horse, and flippers and tusks like a walrus.

2008, Oliver Ho, Mysteries Unwrapped: Mutants & Monsters, page 26:

One particularly fierce bunyip described by Smith was well known as a man-eater throughout south Australia.

2009, David D. Gilmore, Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, page 150:

(Australia, cryptozoology, mythology) A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.


apparition

/ˌæp.əɹˈɪʃn̩/

/ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/

/ˌæp.ɚˈɪ.ʃən/

From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.

the sudden apparition of the Spaniards

1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world.

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:

An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.

The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes / That shapes this monstrous apparition.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

The heavenly bands […] a glorious apparition.

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

The apparition wobbled in front of Arthur's eyes, though the truth of the matter is probably that Arthur's eyes were wobbling in front of the apparition.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:

An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.

привидение

(astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.

видимост

astronomy: the first appearance of a luminary after having been invisible or obscured

(astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.


ثعبان

Turkish: suban

Borrowed from Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”).

bor+

fabulous serpent of enormous size, dragon


demon

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

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

daimon

now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit

So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his undercover agent in the world. These Gnostics equated Ialdabaoth with the Hebrew Yahweh, whom they saw as a jealous and wrathful deity and an opponent of the supreme God whom Jesus came to earth to reveal.
Whoever wrote the Gospel of Judas was a harsh critic of mainstream Christianity and its rituals. Because Judas is a demon working for Ialdabaoth, the author believed, when Judas sacrifices Jesus he does so to the demons, not to the supreme God. This mocks mainstream Christians' belief in the atoning value of Jesus' death and in the effectiveness of the Eucharist.

2007 December 2, April D. DeConick, “What the Gospel of Judas really says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-11-23, Essay:

An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

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


demon

demon (nominative singular)
demony (nominative plural)
demona (genitive singular)
demonów (genitive plural)
demonowi (dative singular)
demonom (dative plural)
demona (accusative singular)
demony (accusative plural)
demonem (instrumental singular)
demonami (instrumental plural)
demonie (locative singular)
demonach (locative plural)
demonie (singular vocative)
demony (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin daemon (“lar, genius, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English daemon.

sl

(mythology, religion) demon (evil supernatural spirit)


demon

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn).

jävel

used in the sense of being a demon at something

(Greek mythology) a demon (neutral spirit)


band

bands (genitive)
bǫnd (plural)
band (indefinite nominative singular)
bandit (definite nominative singular)
bǫnd (indefinite nominative plural)
bǫndin (definite nominative plural)
band (accusative indefinite singular)
bandit (accusative definite singular)
bǫnd (accusative indefinite plural)
bǫndin (accusative definite plural)
bandi (dative indefinite singular)
bandinu (dative definite singular)
bǫndum (dative indefinite plural)
bǫndunum (dative definite plural)
bands (genitive indefinite singular)
bandsins (definite genitive singular)
banda (genitive indefinite plural)
bandanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

band

Icelandic: band

Faroese: band

Norwegian Nynorsk: band

→ Norwegian Bokmål: band

Swedish: band

Danish: bånd

Norwegian Bokmål: bånd

Svá skyldi goð gjalda,
gram reki bǫnd af lǫndum,
reið sé rǫgn ok Óðinn,
rôn míns féar hônum;[…]

c. 930, Egill Skallagrímsson, loose verse 21

So shall the gods repay him—may the gods drive the ruler from the land; may the divine powers be wroth, and Odin—for the plunder of my wealth.

(plural only, heiti, Germanic paganism) the gods


Adonis

The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

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

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

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

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


Adonis

la-proper noun

Adōnis m sg (genitive Adōnidis); third declension

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

[äˈd̪oːnɪs̠]


Adonis

Ȁdonis (canonical masculine)
А̏донис (Cyrillic)


Adonis

[ʔɐˈd̪oː.n̪ɪs]

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

Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)


Holy Grail

the Holy Grail (canonical)
Holy Grails (plural)

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From Middle English Holy Grayle.
(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

(Arthurian legend) An artifact in Arthurian mythology, being the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and in which some of his blood was caught during the crucifixion.


Wheel of Fortune

(mythology, philosophy) The wheel of Fortune.


oni

ONI 鬼. Generic name for devils, the representation of which in art is quite a common feature. Onis have claws, a square head with two horns, sharp teeth, and malignant eyes surmounted by big eyebrows; occasionally they wear trousers of tiger skin.

1908, Henri L. Joly, Legend in Japanese Art: A Description of Historical Episodes, Legendary Characters, Folk-lore, Myths, Religious Symbolism, Illustrated in the Arts of Old Japan, pages 263–264:

Across the ocean, in Japan, there once lived curious creatures called Onis. Every Japanese boy and girl has heard of them, though one has not often been caught.

1918, William Elliot Griffis, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks:

"That's no human being playing the instrument," he thought in amazement. "It can only be an oni or some such being."

1979, Marian Ury, Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 147:

The standing Shoki holds with his left hand an oni on his leg.

1992, Karl M. Schwarz, Netsuke Subjects: A Study on the Netsuke Themes with Reference to Their Interpretation and Symbolism, Böhlau Verlag Wien, →ISBN, page 46:

This is actually a boy bishie in the form of an ogre. It's called an oni in Japanese. Onis have supernatural powers that can command the forces of nature such as wind (to create hurricanes) and lightning (to create thunderbolts).

2005, Christopher Hart, Manga Mania Shoujo: How to Draw the Charming and Romantic Characters of Japanese Comics, →ISBN, page 69:

The oni are a diverse group of evil spirits who take on the form of humanoid creatures so that they can enjoy the pleasures and vices of the flesh.

2011, Mike Shel, “Ecology of the Oni”, in Jade Regent: The Brinewall Legacy, Paizo Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:


panic

en-adj

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

more panic (comparative)
most panic (superlative)

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

der

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


Thor

Representing Old Norse Þórr. Cognate with Old English Þunor, Swedish Tor.

So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.

1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:

(Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.

A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.


Thor

de-proper noun

Thor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Thors)

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar, itself a learned borrowing from Old High German.

(Norse mythology) Thor, a hammer-wielding god in Norse mythology


nano

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


Neptune

From Middle English Neptune, Neptunus, a borrowing from Latin Neptūnus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰ-tu-s (“damp, cloudy”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist."
Puhvel, however, connects it with Proto-Italic *nepōts from Proto-Indo-European *népōts by analogy to Portūnus, cognate with Vedic Apām Napāt and Avestan Apąm Napāt, Child (cf: neve, nephew) of the Water as part of an Indo-European 'Fire in the Water' myth.

der

Neptune
Neptune (disambiguation)#Places
Neptune (god)

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


Neptune

(Roman mythology) Neptune (Roman god of the sea)


deva

Transliteration of Sanskrit देव (deva, “deity, god”). Doublet of daeva.

translit

A god in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.


Pluto

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

bor

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


Pluto

cs-proper noun

Pluto m anim (related adjective Plutonův or Plutův)

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

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

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Pluto


Pluto

Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutot (nominative plural)
Pluto (accusative nominative singular)
Plutot (accusative nominative plural)
Pluton (accusative genitive singular)
Plutot (accusative genitive plural)
Pluton (genitive singular)
Plutojen (genitive plural)
Plutoa (partitive singular)
Plutoja (partitive plural)
Plutossa (inessive singular)
Plutoissa (inessive plural)
Plutosta (elative singular)
Plutoista (elative plural)
Plutoon (illative singular)
Plutoihin (illative plural)
Plutolla (adessive singular)
Plutoilla (adessive plural)
Plutolta (ablative singular)
Plutoilta (ablative plural)
Plutolle (allative singular)
Plutoille (allative plural)
Plutona (essive singular)
Plutoina (essive plural)
Plutoksi (singular translative)
Plutoiksi (plural translative)
Plutotta (abessive singular)
Plutoitta (abessive plural)
Plutoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Plutoni (nominative singular)
Plutoni (nominative plural)
Plutoni (accusative nominative singular)
Plutoni (accusative nominative plural)
Plutoni (accusative genitive singular)
Plutoni (accusative genitive plural)
Plutoni (genitive singular)
Plutojeni (genitive plural)
Plutoani (partitive singular)
Plutojani (partitive plural)
Plutossani (inessive singular)
Plutoissani (inessive plural)
Plutostani (elative singular)
Plutoistani (elative plural)
Plutooni (illative singular)
Plutoihini (illative plural)
Plutollani (adessive singular)
Plutoillani (adessive plural)
Plutoltani (ablative singular)
Plutoiltani (ablative plural)
Plutolleni (allative singular)
Plutoilleni (allative plural)
Plutonani (essive singular)
Plutoinani (essive plural)
Plutokseni (singular translative)
Plutoikseni (plural translative)
Plutottani (abessive singular)
Plutoittani (abessive plural)
Plutoineni (comitative plural)
Plutosi (nominative singular)
Plutosi (nominative plural)
Plutosi (accusative nominative singular)
Plutosi (accusative nominative plural)
Plutosi (accusative genitive singular)
Plutosi (accusative genitive plural)
Plutosi (genitive singular)
Plutojesi (genitive plural)
Plutoasi (partitive singular)
Plutojasi (partitive plural)
Plutossasi (inessive singular)
Plutoissasi (inessive plural)
Plutostasi (elative singular)
Plutoistasi (elative plural)
Plutoosi (illative singular)
Plutoihisi (illative plural)
Plutollasi (adessive singular)
Plutoillasi (adessive plural)
Plutoltasi (ablative singular)
Plutoiltasi (ablative plural)
Plutollesi (allative singular)
Plutoillesi (allative plural)
Plutonasi (essive singular)
Plutoinasi (essive plural)
Plutoksesi (singular translative)
Plutoiksesi (plural translative)
Plutottasi (abessive singular)
Plutoittasi (abessive plural)
Plutoinesi (comitative plural)
Plutomme (nominative singular)
Plutomme (nominative plural)
Plutomme (accusative nominative singular)
Plutomme (accusative nominative plural)
Plutomme (accusative genitive singular)
Plutomme (accusative genitive plural)
Plutomme (genitive singular)
Plutojemme (genitive plural)
Plutoamme (partitive singular)
Plutojamme (partitive plural)
Plutossamme (inessive singular)
Plutoissamme (inessive plural)
Plutostamme (elative singular)
Plutoistamme (elative plural)
Plutoomme (illative singular)
Plutoihimme (illative plural)
Plutollamme (adessive singular)
Plutoillamme (adessive plural)
Plutoltamme (ablative singular)
Plutoiltamme (ablative plural)
Plutollemme (allative singular)
Plutoillemme (allative plural)
Plutonamme (essive singular)
Plutoinamme (essive plural)
Plutoksemme (singular translative)
Plutoiksemme (plural translative)
Plutottamme (abessive singular)
Plutoittamme (abessive plural)
Plutoinemme (comitative plural)
Plutonne (nominative singular)
Plutonne (nominative plural)
Plutonne (accusative nominative singular)
Plutonne (accusative nominative plural)
Plutonne (accusative genitive singular)
Plutonne (accusative genitive plural)
Plutonne (genitive singular)
Plutojenne (genitive plural)
Plutoanne (partitive singular)
Plutojanne (partitive plural)
Plutossanne (inessive singular)
Plutoissanne (inessive plural)
Plutostanne (elative singular)
Plutoistanne (elative plural)
Plutoonne (illative singular)
Plutoihinne (illative plural)
Plutollanne (adessive singular)
Plutoillanne (adessive plural)
Plutoltanne (ablative singular)
Plutoiltanne (ablative plural)
Plutollenne (allative singular)
Plutoillenne (allative plural)
Plutonanne (essive singular)
Plutoinanne (essive plural)
Plutoksenne (singular translative)
Plutoiksenne (plural translative)
Plutottanne (abessive singular)
Plutoittanne (abessive plural)
Plutoinenne (comitative plural)
Plutonsa (nominative singular)
Plutonsa (nominative plural)
Plutonsa (accusative nominative singular)
Plutonsa (accusative nominative plural)
Plutonsa (accusative genitive singular)
Plutonsa (accusative genitive plural)
Plutonsa (genitive singular)
Plutojensa (genitive plural)
Plutoaan (partitive singular)
Plutoansa (partitive singular)
Plutojaan (partitive plural)
Plutojansa (partitive plural)
Plutossaan (inessive singular)
Plutossansa (inessive singular)
Plutoissaan (inessive plural)
Plutoissansa (inessive plural)
Plutostaan (elative singular)
Plutostansa (elative singular)
Plutoistaan (elative plural)
Plutoistansa (elative plural)
Plutoonsa (illative singular)
Plutoihinsa (illative plural)
Plutollaan (adessive singular)
Plutollansa (adessive singular)
Plutoillaan (adessive plural)
Plutoillansa (adessive plural)
Plutoltaan (ablative singular)
Plutoltansa (ablative singular)
Plutoiltaan (ablative plural)
Plutoiltansa (ablative plural)
Plutolleen (allative singular)
Plutollensa (allative singular)
Plutoilleen (allative plural)
Plutoillensa (allative plural)
Plutonaan (essive singular)
Plutonansa (essive singular)
Plutoinaan (essive plural)
Plutoinansa (essive plural)
Plutokseen (singular translative)
Plutoksensa (singular translative)
Plutoikseen (plural translative)
Plutoiksensa (plural translative)
Plutottaan (abessive singular)
Plutottansa (abessive singular)
Plutoittaan (abessive plural)
Plutoittansa (abessive plural)
Plutoineen (comitative plural)
Plutoinensa (comitative plural)


Pluto

de-proper noun

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

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

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


Pluto

Pluto (nominative singular)
Plutót (accusative singular)
Plutónak (dative singular)
Plutóval (instrumental singular)
Plutóért (causal-final singular)
Plutóvá (singular translative)
Plutóig (singular terminative)
Plutoként (essive-formal singular)
Plutóban (inessive singular)
Plutón (singular superessive)
Plutónál (adessive singular)
Plutóba (illative singular)
Plutóra (singular sublative)
Plutóhoz (allative singular)
Plutóból (elative singular)
Plutóról (delative singular)
Plutótól (ablative singular)
Plutóé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Plutóéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
Plutóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Plutód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Plutója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Plutónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Plutótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Plutójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)


Pluto

la-proper noun

Plūtō m sg (genitive Plūtōnis); third declension

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

[ˈpɫ̪uːt̪oː]

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

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


Pluto

English: Pluto

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

(mythology) The Roman god governing the underworld; Pluto.


Uranus

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

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


Uranus

(Roman mythology) Caelus (Roman deity) Note: The Greek deity Uranus is Ouranos


Uranus

de-proper noun

Uranus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Uranus)

Pluto

traditionally; by the IAU founded in 1919 only till 2006


Uranus

la-proper noun

Ūranus m sg (genitive Ūranī); second declension

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

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

(Greek mythology) Uranus (god of the sky)


Ulixes

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

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

Catalan: Ulisses

English: Ulysses

French: Ulysse

Italian: Ulisse

Old English: Aulixes

Sicilian: Ulissi

Spanish: Ulises

[ʊˈlʲɪks̠eːs̠]

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


Aeneas

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

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


Aeneas

la-proper noun

Aenēās m sg (genitive Aenēae); first declension

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

[äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]

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

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Αἰνείᾱς, Αἰνέᾱς