Chimera

See also: chimera and Chimaera

English

Wikipedia

Chimera on a red-figure Apulian plate, ca 350-340 BCE (Musée du Louvre)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khimaira).

Proper noun

Chimera

1. (Greek mythology) One of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

Translations

mythical monster

• Czech: Chiméra f
• Danish: Kimære
• Finnish: khimaira
• German: Chimäre (de) f
• Greek: Χίμαιρα (el) f (Chímaira)
• Greenlandic: Kimære
• Inuktitut: ᕿᒦᕋ (Qimiira)

• Italian: chimera (it) f
• Japanese: キメラ (kimera), キマイラ (kimaira)
• Russian: Химера f (χim'éra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Химера f

  Roman: Himera f

• Swedish: Chimaira

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• Bulgarian: химера (bg) f (chimera)
• Serbo-Croatian: himera f
• French: chimère (fr)

• Macedonian: химера f (himera)