phoenix

See also Phoenix

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• phenix, phœnix, pheonix

Etymology

From Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoĩnix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fē'nĭks, IPA: /ˈfiːnɪks/, X-SAMPA: /"fi:nIks/
• Rhymes: -iːnɪks

Noun

phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes)

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.

Translations

mythological bird

• Arabic: عنقاء (ar) (3anqaa'), فينيكس (ar) (finiks)
• Armenian: փյունիկ (hy) (p’yunik) 
• Bulgarian: феникс (bg) (feniks) m 
• Catalan: fènix (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ (chr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鳳凰 (cmn), 凤凰 (cmn) (fènghuáng)

• Danish: føniks (da) c
• Dutch: feniks (nl) m
• Esperanto: fenikso (eo)
• Faroese: føniks (fo) m
• Finnish: feeniks (fi)
• French: phénix (fr) m
• Galician: fénix (gl) f
• German: Phönix (de)
• Greek: φοίνικας (el) (foínikas) m 
• Hebrew: עוף החול (he)
• Hindi: अमरपक्षी (hi) (amarapakṣī)
• Hungarian: főnix (hu)
• Icelandic: fönix (is) m
• Ido: fenixo (io)
• Italian: fenice (it) f
• Japanese: 鳳凰 (ja) (ほうおう, hōō), 朱雀 (ja) (すざく, suzaku), 不死鳥 (ja) (ふしちょう, fushichō), 火の鳥 (ja) (ひのとり, hinotori), フェニックス (ja) (fenikkusu)

• Korean: 불사조 (ko) (bulsajo) (不死鳥 (ko))
• Latvian: fēnikss (lv)
• Lithuanian: feniksas (lt) m
• Maltese: Feniċju (mt)
• Norwegian: føniks (no) m, ildfugl (no) m
• Persian: ققنس (fa) (qaqnos)
• Polish: feniks (pl) m
• Portuguese: fênix (pt) f (Brazil), fénix (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: fenix (ro) m
• Russian: феникс (ru) (féniks) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: феникс (sh) m, жар-птица (sh) f

  Roman: feniks (sh) m, žar-ptica (sh) f

• Slovak: fénix (sk) m
• Slovene: feniks (sl) m
• Spanish: fénix (es) m
• Swedish: fenix (sv) c
• Thai: นกฟีนิกซ์ (th)
• Turkish: Anka (tr), Zümrüdüanka (tr), Simurg (tr)
• Volapük: fönig (vo)
• Welsh: ffenics (cy) m

anything reborn after apparently being destroyed

• Dutch: feniks (nl) m
• Greek: φοίνικας (el) (foínikas) m 
• Japanese: 不死鳥 (ja) (ふしちょう, fushichō)
• Korean: 불사조 (ko) (bulsajo) (不死鳥 (ko))
• Norwegian: føniks (no) m

• Portuguese: fênix (pt) f (Brazil), fénix (pt) f (Portugal)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: феникс (sh) m

  Roman: feniks (sh) m

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Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: feniks

• Indonesian: phoenix
• Persian: سیمرغ (simorgh)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈpʰoe̯.niːks/

Noun

phoenīx (genitive phoenīcis); f, third declension

1. phoenix

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	phoenīx	phoenīcēs
genitive	phoenīcis	phoenīcium
dative	phoenīcī	phoenīcibus
accusative	phoenīcem	phoenīcēs 1
ablative	phoenīce	phoenīcibus
vocative	phoenīx	phoenīcēs

¹ May also be phoenīcīs.

Adjective

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

1. Phoenician

Inflection

Number	Singular			Plural
Case \ Gender	M.F.	N.		MM.FF.	NN.
nominative	phoenīx	phoenīx		phoenīcēs	phoenīca
genitive	phoenīcis	phoenīcis		phoenīcum	phoenīcum
dative	phoenīcī	phoenīcī		phoenīcibus	phoenīcibus
accusative	phoenīcem	phoenīx		phoenīcēs	phoenīca
ablative	phoenīce	phoenīce		phoenīcibus	phoenīcibus
vocative	phoenīx	phoenīx		phoenīcēs	phoenīca

Synonyms

• (Phoenician): phoenīcius

Related terms

• Phoenīcia
• phoenīcius
• phoenīx