Translingual

Etymology

From Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ ‎(phoînix, “the date (fruit and tree)", "mythical bird”)

Proper noun

Phoenix f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Arecaceae – the date palms.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Arecaceae): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Arecales - order; Arecaceae - family; Coryphoideae - subfamily; Phoeniceae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus in Arecaceae): Phoenix dactylifera - type species; for other species see Phoenix on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Proper noun

Phoenix

1. (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology
2. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
3. (Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus
4. The capital city of the state of Arizona in the United States of America.
5. A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
6. A surname​.
7. A male given name
8. A female given name

Derived terms

• Phoenicis

Translations

Dutch

Proper noun

Phoenix m

1. (astronomy) Phoenix

Latin

Alternative forms

• Phœnix

Etymology

Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ ‎(phoînix), Φοῖνιξ ‎(Phoînix)

Proper noun

Phoenīx m ‎(genitive Phoenīcis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) A companion of Achilles during the Trojan War.

Related terms

• Phoenīcia
• phoenīx

References

• Phoenix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Phoenix”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Phoenix f

1. Phoenix (a city, the state capital of Arizona, United States of America)

English

Alternative forms

• phenix, phœnix, pheonix

Noun

phoenix ‎(plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)

1. (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.

   Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

3. (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.

Translations

References

1. ↑ Maria Carmela Betrò, Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt (Abbeville, 1996), 108.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoi.niːks/

Noun

phoenīx f ‎(genitive phoenīcis); third declension

1. phoenix

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Adjective

phoenīx m, f, n ‎(genitive phoenīcis); third declension

1. Phoenician

Inflection

Third declension, non-i-stem (genitive plural in -um).

Synonyms

• (Phoenician): phoenīcius

Related terms

• Phoenīcia
• phoenīcius
• phoenīx

References

• phoenix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phoenix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoenix in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoenix in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• phoenix in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly