Niobe
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Niobe f
- (Greek Mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
- (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
- A female given name
Translations
Asteroid
Noun
Niobe (plural Niobes)
- A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida, V.11:
- There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
- But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida, V.11:
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē)
Proper noun
Niobe f
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈni.o.beː/, [ˈniɔbeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈni.o.be/, [ˈniːobe]
Proper noun
Niobē f sg (genitive Niobēs); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Niobē |
Genitive | Niobēs |
Dative | Niobae |
Accusative | Niobēn |
Ablative | Niobē |
Vocative | Niobē |
Related terms
References
- “Niobe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Niobe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Niobe”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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