Sphinx

See also sphinx

Translingual

Sphinx ligustri

Proper noun

Sphinx

1. A taxonomic genus within the tribe Sphingini — many species of moths.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Lepidoptera - order, Glossata - suborder, Heteroneura - infraorder, Ditrysia - division, Cossina - section, Bombycina - subsection, Bombycoidea - superfamily, Sphingidae - family, Sphinginae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Sphinx ligustri (type species), for the many others see Wikispecies

See also

• Sphinx (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Sphinx (moth)
• Sphinx on Wikispecies. Wikispecies

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English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Proper noun

Sphinx

1. (usually with "the") An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who commited suicide out of frustration after Oedipus managed to solve her riddles.

Synonyms

• (definite: large statue in Egypt): The Great Sphinx, The Great Sphinx of Giza

Derived terms

• Sphingian

Translations

large monument in Egypt

• Arabic: أبو الهول (ar) (ʾabū al-hūl) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯芬克斯 (cmn) (Sīfēnkèsī)

• Danish: Sfinksen (da)
• Dutch: Sfinx (nl)
• Estonian: Sfinks (et)
• Finnish: Sfinksi (fi)
• French: Sphinx (fr) m
• German: Sphinx (de) f
• Greek: Σφίγγα (el) (Sfígga) f 
• Italian: Sfinge (it) f
• Japanese: スフィンクス (ja) (Sufinkusu)

• Korean: 스핑크스 (ko) (Seupingkeuseu)
• Maltese: Sfinġa (mt) f
• Norwegian: Sfinksen (no)
• Persian: ابوالهول (fa) (abu-al-hul)
• Polish: Sfinks (pl) m
• Portuguese: Esfinge (pt) f
• Russian: Сфинкс (ru) (Sfinks) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сфинга (sh) f

  Roman: Sfinga (sh) f

• Spanish: Esfinge (es) f
• Swedish: Sfinxen (sv)

Greek mythological creature

• Danish: sfinks (da)
• Dutch: Sfinx
• Finnish: Sfinksi
• Greek: Σφίγγα (el) (Sfígga) f 

  Ancient: Σφίγξ (Sphinx)

• Italian: Sfinge (it) f
• Japanese: スフィンクス (ja) (Sufinkusu)

• Norwegian: sfinks (no) m
• Polish: Sfinks m
• Portuguese: Esfinge f
• Russian: Сфинкс (ru) (Sfinks) m 
• Spanish: Esfinge f
• Swedish: Sfinx c

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• Alemannic German: Sphinx
• Latin: Sphinx m, Sphingis
• Luxembourgish: Sphinx

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German

Noun

Sphinx f

1. Sphinx

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Latin

Noun

Sphinx f (plural: Sphinges)

1. Sphinx