Chimera

See also: chimera, Chimaera, chiméra, and Chiméra

English

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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα (Khímaira).

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 (fi)
• Galician: Quimera f
• 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)
• Portuguese: Quimera f
• Russian: Химе́ра f (Ximéra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Химера f

  Roman: Himera f

• Swedish: Chimaira

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} химера (bg) f (himera)
• French: ^{(please verify)} chimère (fr)

• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} химера f (himera)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} himera f