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.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, magnoliids - clades; Laurales - order; Lauraceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus):  - type species. For some of the more than 100 species see Phoebe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Phoebe (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phoebe (Lauraceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phoebe at The Plant List

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English

Alternative forms

• Phœbe
• (given name) Phebe, Phœbë

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfibi/
• Rhymes: -iːbi

Proper noun

Phoebe

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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).
5. (astronomy) The 14th moon of Saturn.

Quotations

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:

  Now hath faire Phoebe with her silver face / Thrise seene the shadowes of the neather world

• 1901 American Standard Bible: Romans 16:1:

  I commend unto you Phoebe our sister who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae.

Derived terms

• Phoebean

Related terms

• Phoebus

Translations

given name

• Danish: Føbe
• Greenlandic: Biibi
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• Marathi: फीबी f (fībī)

Titan

• Greek:

  Ancient: Φοίβη f (Phoíbē)

• Marathi: फीबी f (fībī)
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• Portuguese: Febe f

moon of Saturn

• Irish: Phoebe
• Marathi: फीबी m (fībī)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: Febe

Anagrams

• behope, ephebo

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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

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Latin

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 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.