Pele

See also: pele, pelé, pèle, pêle, pelē, pelė, and pelë

English

Etymology

From Hawaiian Pele

Proper noun

Pele

1. (Hawaiian mythology) The Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanos.

Anagrams

• LEEP, Leep, Lepe, Peel, leep, peel

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Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le/, [ˈpɛ.lɛ]

Proper noun

1. (Hawaiian mythology) Pele
2. (rare) a female given name from Hawaiian.

Usage notes

Hawaiians traditionally believed that naming a child Pele was dangerous unless the name was specially revealed in a dream.

Descendants

• Translingual: Pelea,

References

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 396
• Martha Warren Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology, Yale University Press 1940
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 2 women and 3 men.

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Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.leː/, [ˈpeːɫ̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le/, [ˈpɛːle]

Proper noun

Pēlē f sg (genitive Pēlēs); first declension

1. An island siatuated near Ephesus

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Pēlē
Genitive	Pēlēs
Dative	Pēlae
Accusative	Pēlēn
Ablative	Pēlē
Vocative	Pēlē

References

• Pele in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.