See Minos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Minos meaning in English (4.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Μῑ́νως"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Minos",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Greek mythology",
"orig": "en:Greek mythology",
"parents": [
"Ancient Greece",
"Mythology",
"Ancient Europe",
"Ancient Near East",
"History of Greece",
"Culture",
"Ancient history",
"History of Europe",
"Ancient Asia",
"Greece",
"History of Asia",
"Society",
"History",
"Europe",
"Asia",
"All topics",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602",
"text": "At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37",
"text": "That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38",
"text": "Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person."
],
"id": "en-Minos-en-name-zNnPCPES",
"links": [
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Crete",
"Crete"
],
[
"Zeus",
"Zeus"
],
[
"Europa",
"Europa"
],
[
"Minotaur",
"Minotaur"
],
[
"labyrinth",
"labyrinth"
],
[
"judge",
"judge"
],
[
"Hades",
"Hades"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Minoan"
},
{
"word": "Minotaur"
}
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"english": "Minos",
"lang": "Armenian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Մինոս"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "米諾斯"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Mǐnuòsī",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "米诺斯"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Minos"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "minosi",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "მინოსი"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Minósz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Minosse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Mínos",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ми́нос"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dante Alighieri",
"Gustave Doré",
"Inferno (Dante)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪnɒs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪnəs/"
}
],
"word": "Minos"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Μῑ́νως"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Minos",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Minoan"
},
{
"word": "Minotaur"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"en:Greek mythology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602",
"text": "At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37",
"text": "That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38",
"text": "Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person."
],
"links": [
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"king",
"king"
],
[
"Crete",
"Crete"
],
[
"Zeus",
"Zeus"
],
[
"Europa",
"Europa"
],
[
"Minotaur",
"Minotaur"
],
[
"labyrinth",
"labyrinth"
],
[
"judge",
"judge"
],
[
"Hades",
"Hades"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person."
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dante Alighieri",
"Gustave Doré",
"Inferno (Dante)"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪnɒs/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪnəs/"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"english": "Minos",
"lang": "Armenian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Մինոս"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "米諾斯"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Mǐnuòsī",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "米诺斯"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Minos"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "minosi",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "მინოსი"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"word": "Minósz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Minosse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Mínos",
"sense": "mythological king of Crete",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ми́нос"
}
],
"word": "Minos"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.