Phoebe

See also: phoebe, phœbe, and Phœbë

Translingual

Etymology

Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē)

Proper noun

Phoebe f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lauraceae – tropical and subtropical evergreen trees, native to Asia and the Americas.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Cerambycidae – certain longhorn beetles.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Lauraceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, magnoliids – clades; Laurales – order; Lauraceae – family
• (genus in Cerambycidae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Coleoptera – order; Polyphaga – suborder; Cucujiformia – infraorder; Chrysomeloidea – superfamily; Cerambycidae – family; Lamiinae – subfamily; Hemilophini – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Phoebe lanceolata – type species. For some of the more than 100 species see Phoebe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Lauraceae

• Phoebe (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Phoebe (Lauraceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phoebe at Plants of the World Online

Cerambycidae

• Phoebe (beetle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe (Audinet-Serville) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hemilophini on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Phoebe (sense 5), as imaged by the Cassini probe.

Alternative forms

• Phœbe, Phebe, Phœbë

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Phoebē, from Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːbi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːbi

Proper noun

Phoebe

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2025 April 24, Vanessa Friedman, “Phoebe Gates, the Daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, Steps Into the Spotlight”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Ms. Gates, who is named after Phoebe from “The Catcher in the Rye,” grew up in Seattle, the youngest of three.

2. (Greek mythology) A Titan, goddess of the moon, sister-wife of Coeus, and daughter of Uranus and Gaia.
3. (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Selene; Phoebe Selene, after her maternal aunt, Phoebe (see above).
4. (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Artemis; Phoebe Artemis, after her maternal grandmother, Phoebe (see above).
6. (astronomy) The 14th moon of Saturn.

Derived terms

• Phoebean

Related terms

• Phoebus

Translations

given name

• Arabic: فيبي f (fībī)
• Danish: Føbe
• French: Phœbé (fr)
• German: Phoebe (de) f, Phöbe f
• Greek: Φοίβη (el) f (Foívi)
• Greenlandic: Biibi
• Italian: Febe f
• Japanese: フィービー (Fībī)
• Marathi: फीबी f (phībī)

Titan

• French: Phébé (fr) f, Phœbé (fr) f
• German: Phoibe f, Phoebe (de) f
• Greek: Φοίβη (el) f (Foívi)

  Ancient Greek: Φοίβη f (Phoíbē)

• Japanese: ポイベー (Poibē), ポイベ (Poibe)
• Korean: 포이베 (Poibe)
• Latin: Phoebē f
• Marathi: फीबी f (phībī)
• Portuguese: Febe f

moon of Saturn

• German: Phoebe (de) m
• Irish: Phoebe
• Marathi: फीबी m (phībī)
• Portuguese: Febe
• Spanish: Febe (es)

Further reading

• Phoebe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe (moon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe (Greek myth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe (Titaness) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• behope, ephebo

Cebuano

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”). As a given name, partially from Phoebe Cates.

Proper noun

Phoebe

1. a female given name from English
2. a moon of Saturn
3. (Greek mythology) Phoebe

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰoe̯.beː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.be]

Proper noun

Phoebē f sg (genitive Phoebēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Phoebe

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Phoebē
genitive	Phoebēs
dative	Phoebae
accusative	Phoebēn
ablative	Phoebē
vocative	Phoebē

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰoe̯.bɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.be]

Proper noun

Phoebe

1. vocative singular of Phoebus

References

• “Phoebe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Phoebe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Phoebe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.