Phoebe
Translingual
Etymology
Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē)
Proper noun
Phoebe f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, magnoliids - clades; Laurales - order; Lauraceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Phoebe lanceolata - type species. For some of the more than 100 species see
Phoebe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Phoebe (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Phoebe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Phoebe (Lauraceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons- Phoebe at The Plant List
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfibi/
- Rhymes: -iːbi
Proper noun
Phoebe
- A female given name.
- (Greek mythology) A Titan, goddess of the moon, sister-wife of Coeus, and daughter of Uranus and Gaia.
- (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Selene; Phoebe Selene, after her maternal aunt, Phoebe (see above).
- (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Artemis; Phoebe Artemis, after her maternal grandmother, Phoebe (see above).
- (astronomy) The 14th moon of Saturn.
Quotations
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto II, stanza 44:
- Now hath faire Phoebe with her silver face / Thrise seene the shadowes of the neather world
- 1901 American Standard Bible: Romans 16:1:
- I commend unto you Phoebe our sister who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae.
Derived terms
Related terms
Cebuano
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”). As a given name, partially from Phoebe Cates.
Latin
References
- Phoebe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Phoebe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Phoebe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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