Niobe

See also: Niobé and niobé

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/

Proper noun

Niobe f

  1. (Greek Mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
  2. (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
  3. A female given name

Translations

Noun

Niobe (plural Niobes)

  1. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida, V.11:
      There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
      But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?

Anagrams


Italian

Etymology

Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē)

Proper noun

Niobe f

  1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈni.o.beː/, [ˈni.ɔ.beː]

Proper noun

Niobē f (genitive Niobēs); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Inflection

First declension, Greek type.

Case Singular
Nominative Niobē
Genitive Niobēs
Dative Niobae
Accusative Niobēn
Ablative Niobē
Vocative Niobē
  • Niobēus
  • Niobīdēs

References

  • Niobe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Niobe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Niobe in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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