Apollo

See also: apollo and Apol·lo

English

Apollo (1) and Artemis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɒləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑloʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
• Hyphenation: Apol‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Proper noun

Apollo

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     'Blue are the hills that are far away,' is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man's fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.

2. (astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
3. (astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
4. (NASA, space science) A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.

   Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time

5. (with "the") Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
6. A butterfly of species Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
7. A very handsome young man.
8. A male given name
9. A placename.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "astronomy"): Hermes

Derived terms

• (NASA, space): pre-Apollo, post-Apollo

Related terms

• variants: Apollon, Apolo, Apollos

Translations

the son of Zeus

• Arabic: أَبُولُّو m (ʔabollū)
• Armenian: Ապոլոն (hy) (Apolon), Ապոլլոն (hy) (Apollon)
• Cantonese: 阿波羅
• Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏉᎳ (aquola)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿波羅／阿波罗 (zh) (Ābōluó)

• Coptic: ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱⲛ (apollōn)
• Czech: Apollón (cs) m
• Dutch: Apollo (nl)
• Esperanto: Apolono
• Finnish: Apollon
• French: Apollon (fr) m
• Galician: Apolo (gl) m
• Georgian: აპოლონი (aṗoloni)
• German: Apoll (de) m, Apollo (de) m, Apollon (de) m
• Greek: Απόλλων (el) m (Apóllon), Απόλλωνας (el) m (Apóllonas)

  Ancient: Ἀπόλλων m (Apóllōn)

• Hungarian: Apollón
• Irish: Apalló m
• Italian: Apollo (it) m
• Japanese: アポロン (Aporon), アポローン (Aporōn)
• Khmer: អាប៉ូឡូ (ar po lo)
• Korean: 아폴론 (Apollon)
• Latin: Apollō m
• Marathi: अपोलो m (apolo)
• Middle English: Appolyn, Phebus
• Polish: Apollo (pl) m
• Portuguese: Apolo (pt) m
• Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón)
• Spanish: Apolo (es) m
• Swahili: Apolo
• Tagalog: Apolo
• Ukrainian: Аполло́н (uk) m (Apollón)
• Zulu: u-Apholo

a very handsome young man

• Catalan: apol·lo m
• French: apollon (fr) m
• Greek: απόλλων m (apóllon), τεκνό (el) n (teknó)
• Italian: apollo (it) m
• Polish: apollo (pl) m
• Portuguese: apolo m
• Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón), аполло́н (ru) m (apollón), краса́вец (ru) m (krasávec)
• Spanish: apolo (es) m

a three-man spacecraft

• Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿波羅／阿波罗 (zh) (Ābōluó)

• Finnish: Apollo
• French: Apollo (fr)
• Hungarian: Apollo (hu)
• Japanese: アポロ (Aporo)
• Korean: 아폴로 (Apollo)
• Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo)
• Portuguese: Apollo (pt) f
• Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón)

a town in Pennsylvania

• Finnish: Apollo
• French: Apollo (fr)
• Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo)

butterfly

• Catalan: apol·lo m
• Finnish: isoapollo
• French: apollon (fr) m
• Hungarian: Apolló-lepke
• Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo)
• Portuguese: apolo m
• Russian: аполло́н (ru) m (apollón)

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Etymology 2

From the object 1862 Apollo.

Noun

Apollo (plural Apollos)

1. (astronomy) An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

Translations

asteroid type

• Arabic: أَبُولُّو m (ʔabollū)
• Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m
• Finnish: Apollo-asteroidi
• French: Apollon (fr) m
• Greek: Απόλλων (el) m (Apóllon)

  Ancient: Ἀπόλλων m (Apóllōn)

• Italian: Apollo (it) m
• Japanese: アポロ (Aporo)
• Latin: Apollo m
• Marathi: अपोलो m (apolo)
• Portuguese: Apolo (pt) m
• Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón)
• Spanish: Apolo (es) m

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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} Apollo m

See also

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• palolo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔl.lo/, /aˈpol.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔllo, -ollo
• Hyphenation: A‧pòl‧lo, A‧pól‧lo

Proper noun

Apollo m

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

Derived terms

• apollo

Anagrams

• Opallo

Latin

Alternative forms

• Apellō (pre-Classical)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈpol.loː/, [äˈpɔlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpol.lo/, [äˈpɔlːo]

Proper noun

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo
   • c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni":

     Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo

     Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest

Declension

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Apollō	Apollinēs
Genitive	Apollinis Apollōnis	Apollinum
Dative	Apollinī Apollōnī	Apollinibus
Accusative	Apollinem Apollōnem	Apollinēs
Ablative	Apolline Apollōne	Apollinibus
Vocative	Apollō	Apollinēs

Synonyms

• Phoebus

Derived terms

• Apollināris
• Apollineus

References

• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Apollo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Apollo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Apollo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Apollo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Proper noun

Apollo

1. Alternative form of Appolyn

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔl.lɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔllɔ
• Syllabification: A‧pol‧lo
• Homophone: apollo

Proper noun

Apollo m pers

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo (son of Zeus)

Declension

Declension of Apollo

	singular
nominative	Apollo
genitive	Apolla/Apollina
dative	Apollowi/Apollinowi
accusative	Apolla/Apollina
instrumental	Apollem/Apollinem
locative	Apollu/Apollinie
vocative	Apollu/Apollinie

Proper noun

Apollo m pers

1. (rare) a male given name, equivalent to English Apollo

Declension

Declension of Apollo

	singular	plural
nominative	Apollo	Apollowie
genitive	Apolla/Apollona	Apollów/Apollonów
dative	Apollowi/Apollonowi	Apollom/Apollonom
accusative	Apolla/Apollona	Apollów/Apollonów
instrumental	Apollem/Apollonem	Apollami/Apollonami
locative	Apollu/Apollonie	Apollach/Apollonach
vocative	Apollu/Apollonie	Apollowie

Further reading

• Apollo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Apollo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈpɔ.lu/

Proper noun

Apollo f

1. Apollo (American three-man spacecraft)

Proper noun

Apollo m

1. Obsolete spelling of Apolo

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Proper noun

Apollo c (genitive Apollos)

1. (Greek mythology) Apollo

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus