See Sfinge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "la",
"3": "Sphingem"
},
"expansion": "Latin Sphingem",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Σφίγξ"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin Sphingem, accusative of Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "la Sfinge",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "la Sfinge"
},
"expansion": "la Sfinge f",
"name": "it-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Sfìn‧ge"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Sfìn‧ge"
]
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sphinx (an ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-Sfinge-it-name-j5qYRsuq",
"links": [
[
"Sphinx",
"Sphinx#English:_Q130958"
],
[
"statue",
"statue"
],
[
"Egypt",
"Egypt"
],
[
"man",
"man"
],
[
"lion",
"lion"
],
[
"Great Pyramid",
"Great Pyramid"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "it",
"name": "Greek mythology",
"orig": "it:Greek mythology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "42 58",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "46 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Sphinx (one of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who dwelt near the city of Thebes in Boeotia and terrorized travelers by posing riddles, killing those who failed to answer correctly; after Oedipus solved her riddle, she committed suicide out of frustration)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-Sfinge-it-name-XFmVAllx",
"links": [
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Sphinx",
"Sphinx#English:_Q9335858"
],
[
"Typhon",
"Typhon"
],
[
"Echidna",
"Echidna"
],
[
"Thebes",
"Thebes"
],
[
"Boeotia",
"Boeotia"
],
[
"riddle",
"riddle"
],
[
"Oedipus",
"Oedipus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Greek mythology) Sphinx (one of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who dwelt near the city of Thebes in Boeotia and terrorized travelers by posing riddles, killing those who failed to answer correctly; after Oedipus solved her riddle, she committed suicide out of frustration)"
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsfin.d͡ʒe/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-indʒe"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"it:Grande + di Giza"
],
"word": "Sfinge"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian 2-syllable words",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian feminine nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian proper nouns",
"Italian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Italian terms derived from Latin",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian uncountable proper nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/indʒe",
"Rhymes:Italian/indʒe/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "la",
"3": "Sphingem"
},
"expansion": "Latin Sphingem",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "grc",
"3": "Σφίγξ"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin Sphingem, accusative of Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "la Sfinge",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "la Sfinge"
},
"expansion": "la Sfinge f",
"name": "it-proper noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"Sfìn‧ge"
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Sfìn‧ge"
]
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Sphinx (an ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"Sphinx",
"Sphinx#English:_Q130958"
],
[
"statue",
"statue"
],
[
"Egypt",
"Egypt"
],
[
"man",
"man"
],
[
"lion",
"lion"
],
[
"Great Pyramid",
"Great Pyramid"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"it:Greek mythology"
],
"glosses": [
"Sphinx (one of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who dwelt near the city of Thebes in Boeotia and terrorized travelers by posing riddles, killing those who failed to answer correctly; after Oedipus solved her riddle, she committed suicide out of frustration)"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"links": [
[
"Greek",
"Greek"
],
[
"mythology",
"mythology"
],
[
"Sphinx",
"Sphinx#English:_Q9335858"
],
[
"Typhon",
"Typhon"
],
[
"Echidna",
"Echidna"
],
[
"Thebes",
"Thebes"
],
[
"Boeotia",
"Boeotia"
],
[
"riddle",
"riddle"
],
[
"Oedipus",
"Oedipus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Greek mythology) Sphinx (one of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who dwelt near the city of Thebes in Boeotia and terrorized travelers by posing riddles, killing those who failed to answer correctly; after Oedipus solved her riddle, she committed suicide out of frustration)"
],
"tags": [
"Greek"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsfin.d͡ʒe/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-indʒe"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"it:Grande + di Giza"
],
"word": "Sfinge"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Sfinge meaning in Italian (2.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Italian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (e97c820 and 9905b1f). 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.