Europe

English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)

Scots: Europe

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).


Rome

English: Rome

Scots: Roum, Rome

From Old English Rōm, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō, from Latin Rōma.


fawn

English: faun


Venus

English: Venus

The Roman goddess governing love and sexuality; Venus.


Pluto

English: Pluto

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

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


Marte

(mythology) The Roman god governing war; Mars.


Vesta

English: Vesta

(mythology) The Roman goddess of the hearth and home; Vesta.


Mars

English: Mars


Muse

English: Muse, muse

Scots: Muse, muse

From Latin Mūsa, either directly or from Old French muse. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă).


Pan

English: Pan

From Latin Pan, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).


gorgon

English: gorgon (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin Gorgō, from Ancient Greek Γοργώ (Gorgṓ).


Neptunus

English: Neptune

(mythology) The Roman god governing the sea; Neptune.


tribune

English: tribune

From Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribūnus.

A Roman military tribune or similar leader of a thousand soldiers.

A Roman plebeian tribune or similar leader of a thousand civilians.


Diane

English: Diane

(mythology) The Roman goddess of the hunt; Diana.

(astronomy, sometimes capitalised) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens; the Moon.


werde

English: werd, weard (obsolete)

Middle Scots: weird, werd

Scots: weird

→ English: weird

Inherited from Old English wyrd, weord, from Proto-West Germanic *wurdi, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

(Greek mythology) One of the three Fates.


Juno

English: Juno

(Roman mythology) Juno (the queen of the Roman pantheon)


Saturne

English: Saturn

Borrowed from Old French Saturne, from Latin Sāturnus.

(mythology) The Roman god governing agriculture and fertility; Saturn.


Phebe

From Latin Phoebē, from Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē).

(mythology) The Greek Titan and goddess of the Moon; Phoebe.


Latyn

English: Latin

Scots: Latin

From a confluence of Old English latin and Old French latin, both from Latin latīnus.

Relating to the Latin language:
(rare) Written in or composed in Latin.

Relating to the Latin language:
Written in or composed in Latin.


questor

English: quaestor, questor

(rare, historical) quaestor (ancient Roman official)


nimphe

English: nymph

From Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).


feal

Middle Scots: feall, fiall

Scots: feal, feele (obsolete)

→ English: feal

Probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman feal (“faithful”), earlier fedeil, from Latin fidēlis; compare feaute.
In Middle English, reinterpreted as fe (“fee”) + -al, influencing both the sense and form.

bor+

A stipend or allowance given to someone.


provynce

English: province
Tok Pisin: provins

Scots: province

From Old French province, from Latin provincia.


Merlyn

English: Merlin

From Medieval Latin Merlinus and Old French Merlin. Forms ending in -ion, -yon are hypercorrections due to the change of merlioun to merlyn.


Joves

English: Jove

The Roman god governing the sky; Jove, Jupiter.


Zephirus

English: Zephyrus

From Latin zephyrus (“Zephyrus; the west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros).

bor

Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth

14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Zephyrus, the Ancient Greek god of the west wind.


Launcelot

English: Lancelot

Than cam In ẜ Aſcamour and ẜ Grūmor ⁊ Grūmorſon ẜ Croſſeleme ẜ Seuerauſe le brewſe that was called a paſſynge ſtronge knyght for as the booke ſeyth the chyff lady of the lady off the lake feſted ẜ Launcelot and ẜ Seu[er]auſe le brewſe And whan ſhe had feſted them both at ſundry tymes ſhe þ[ra]yde hem to gyff her a done

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 446, verso, lines 1–6:

Then came in Sir Astamor, and Sir Gromere, Grummor’s son, Sir Crosselm, Sir Servause le Breuse, that was called a passing strong knight, for as the book saith, the chief Lady of the Lake feasted Sir Launcelot and Servause le Breuse, and when she had feasted them both at sundry times she prayed them to give her a boon.


Uther

English: Uther

ye ſeyde kyng Arthure I love Gwenyvere the kyngꝭ doughtir of lodegrean of þᵉ londe of Camelerde the whyche holdyth In his houſe the table rounde that ye tolde me he had hit of my fadir Vther · And this dameſell is the moſte valyaunte and fayryſt that I know lyvyng, or yet that eu[er] I coude fynde

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 35, recto, lines 11–16:


Furie

English: Fury

Borrowed from Latin Furia; compare furie.


Pendragon

c. 1215, Layamon, Brut, lines 1516-1517

He was there at Easter with his noble army; / Happy was the town of London for Uther Pendragon.

He wes þere an Æstre mid aðele his uolke; / bliðe wes þe Lundenes tun for Vthere Pendragun.

(Arthurian legend) Epithet of Uther, the father of King Arthur.


Mercurie

English: mercury, Mercury

Scots: marcury


Jubiter

English: Jupiter


Lucyna

English: Lucina

(mythology) The Roman goddess of childbirth; Lucina.


Phebus

English: Phoebus

From Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “[the] Radiant [One]”).

der

(mythology) In Greek mythology, the god governing the sun; Phoebus, Apollo.


Appolyn

From inflected forms of Latin Apollo, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) In Greek and Roman mythology, the god governing the sun; Phoebus, Apollo.


Spynx

English: Sphinx, sphinx

From Latin Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx).


patroun

English: patron, pattern

Scots: patron, pawtron

Yola: patroon

→ Irish: pátrún

From Old French patrone, from Latin patrōnus.

(rare, historical) One who worked as legal counsel in ancient Rome.


ymageour

English: imager

From Old French imageor; equivalent to ymage + -our.

One who images or forms likenesses; an imager.


Gwenyver

English: Guinevere

Bᵘᵗ Marlyon warned the kyng covertly that Gwenyuer was nat holſom for hym to take to wyff · For he warned hym that launcelot ſcholde love hir and ſche hym agayne · And ſo he turned his tale to the aventures of the Sankegreal ·

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 35, recto, lines 22–25:

Alas ſeyde quene Gwenyu[er] now ar we myſcheved bothe //

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 451, verso, lines 13–14:

“Alas!” said Queen Guinevere, “now are we mischieved both!”


Arthure

English: Arthur


Camelerde

(Arthurian legend) Cameliard (the estate of the young Guinevere and her father, King Leodegrance)


Lodegrean

(Arthurian legend) Leodegrance (the father of Queen Guinevere)


Balyne

God thanke youre hyghneſſe ſeyde Balyne youre bounte may no man prayſe halff vnto the valew butt at thys tyme I muſte nedis dep[ar]te beſechynge you all way of youre good grace //

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 23, verso, lines 19–21:


rounde table

English: Round Table

Than the moſte p[ar]ty of þe knyghtꝭ of the rounde table ſeyde that Balyne dud nat þis aduenture ony by myght but by wycche crauffte //

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[The Tale of King Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 23, verso, lines 26–28:

Then the majority of the knights of the Round Table said that Balin didn't do that adventure only with might, but with witchcraft as well.


Capitolie

English: Capitol, capitol

From Anglo-Norman capitolie, Old French capitoile, from Latin Capitōlium.

The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus atop the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome


Gawayne

English: Gawain

Than ſpake ẜ Gawayne And ſeyde brothir · ẜ Aggravayne I pray you and charge you meve no ſuch · maters no more a fore me fro wyte you well I woll nat be of youre counceyle //

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Morte Arthur]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England: s.n.], folio 449, verso, lines 15–18:

Then spoke Sir Gawain, and said, “Brother, Sir Agravain, I pray you and charge you move not such matters any more before me, for be ye assured I will not be of your counsel.”


Aggravayne

English: Agravain


Pegase

English: Pegasus

From Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.

(Late Middle English, Greek mythology) Pegasus