Phoebus
See also: Phœbus
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English Phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Phoebus
- (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Helios; Phoebus Helios, after his maternal aunt, Phoebe.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167:
- Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
- (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) An epithet and synonym for Apollo; Phoebus Apollo.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
- By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; […]
- 17th C., William Drummond, Sextain I, in English Poetry, published 1907, page 162:
- The heaven doth not contain so many stars,
- So many leaves not prostrate lie in woods,
- When autumn’s old and Boreas sounds his wars,
- So many waves have not the ocean floods,
- As my rent mind hath torments all the night,
- And heart spends sighs, when Phœbus brings the
- light.
Latin
Alternative forms
- Fuibus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “[the] Radiant [One]”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpʰoe̯.bus/, [ˈpʰoe̯bʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.bus/, [ˈfɛːbus]
Proper noun
Phoebus m sg (genitive Phoebī); second declension
- Apollo, i.e. Phoebus Apollo, the "radiant one"
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Phoebus |
Genitive | Phoebī |
Dative | Phoebō |
Accusative | Phoebum |
Ablative | Phoebō |
Vocative | Phoebe |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Phoebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Phoebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Phoebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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