Tmolus

Translingual

Tmolus echion

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos, “a king of Lydia”).

Proper noun

Tmolus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lycaenidae – certain neotropical butterflies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Papilionoidea  - superfamily; Lycaenidae - family; Theclinae - subfamily; Theclini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tmolus echion - type species; for others see Tmolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies .

References

• Tmolus (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tmolus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tmolus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

Proper noun

Tmolus

1. (Greek mythology) A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
2. (mythology) A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.
   • a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

     The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

Anagrams

• Moults, moults

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtmoː.lus/, [ˈt̪moːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtmo.lus/, [ˈt̪mɔːlus]

Proper noun

Tmōlus m sg (genitive Tmōlī); second declension

1. A range of mountains on the south of Sardes

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Tmōlus
Genitive	Tmōlī
Dative	Tmōlō
Accusative	Tmōlum
Ablative	Tmōlō
Vocative	Tmōle

Derived terms

• Tmōlītēs

References

• Tmolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Tmolus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly