Adonis

See also: adonis, Adónis, and Adônis

Translingual

Adonis annua

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Proper noun

Adonis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – pheasant's eye or blood drops.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots – clades; Ranunculales – order; Ranunculaceae – family; Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Adonideae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Adonis annua (autumn pheasant’s eye) - type species; Adonis aestivalis, Adonis aleppica, Adonis amurensis, Adonis bienertii, Adonis bobroviana, Adonis brevistyla, Adonis chrysocyathus, Adonis coerulea, Adonis cyllenea, Adonis davidii, Adonis dentata, Adonis distorta, Adonis eriocalycina, Adonis flammea, Adonis flammula, Adonis globosa, Adonis integra, Adonis leiosepala, Adonis microcarpa, Adonis mongolica, Adonis multiflora, Adonis nepalensis, Adonis palaestina, Adonis parviflora, Adonis persica, Adonis pyrenaica, Adonis ramosa, Adonis scrobiculata, Adonis shikokuensis, Adonis sibirica, Adonis sibthorpii, Adonis sutchuenensis, Adonis tianschanica, Adonis turkestanica, Adonis vernalis, Adonis villosa, Adonis wolgensis (other species)

References

• Adonis (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Adonis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Adonis (Ranunculaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Adonis at Tropicos
• Adonis at Plants of the World Online

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈdoʊ.nɪs/, /əˈdɒn.ɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdɑn.ɪs/, /əˈdoʊ.nɪs/

Proper noun

Adonis

1. (Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
   • 1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, S. George:

     The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

   • 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun,

     A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.

   • 1921, Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance, Chapter X: The Secret of the Grail (1) - The Mysteries,

     As Sir J. G. Frazer has before now pointed out, there are parallel and over-lapping forms of this cult, the name of the god, and certain details of the ritual, may differ in different countries, but whether he hails from Babylon, Phrygia, or Phoenicia, whether he be called Tammuz, Attis, or Adonis, the main lines of the story are fixed, and invariable. Always he is young and beautiful, always the beloved of a great goddess; always he is the victim of a tragic and untimely death, a death which entails bitter loss and misfortune upon a mourning world, and which, for the salvation of that world, is followed by a resurrection.

2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek
3. A surname.
4. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.

Derived terms

• Adonise, adonise, Adonize, adonize
• autumn Adonis
• (given name): (diminutive) Donny, Donnie, Donney, Donni

Related terms

• Adonai

Translations

the young man loved by Aphrodite

• Bulgarian: Адонис m (Adonis)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏙᏂᏏ (adonisi)
• Coptic: ⲁⲇⲱⲛⲓⲥ (adōnis)
• Esperanto: Adoniso
• French: Adonis (fr) m
• German: Adonis (de) m
• Greek: Άδωνις (el) m (Ádonis)

  Ancient: Ἄδωνις m (Ádōnis)

• Greenlandic: Adonisi
• Inuktitut: ᐊᑑᓂᔅ (atoonis)
• Irish: Adónas
• Norwegian: Adonis (no) m
• Polish: Adonis (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Adônis (pt) m

  European: Adónis (pt) m

• Romanian: Adonis
• Russian: Адо́нис (ru) m (Adónis)
• Tagalog: Adonis (tl)
• Ukrainian: Адо́ніс m (Adónis)

male given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿多尼斯 (zh) (Āduōnísī)

• German: Adonis (de) m
• Italian: Adone (it)
• Polish: Adonis (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Adônis (pt) m

  European: Adónis (pt) m

• Russian: Адо́нис (ru) m (Adónis)

Noun

Adonis (plural Adonises or Adonides)

1. A beautiful man.

Translations

beautiful man

• Catalan: adonis (ca) m
• Finnish: adonis
• Galician: adonis m
• German: Adonis (de) m
• Irish: staic f, strapaire m
• Maori: kōpaka
• Polish: adonis (pl) m
• Romanian: luceafăr (ro), adonis (ro) m
• Spanish: adonis (es) m
• Swedish: adonis (sv) c

Anagrams

• danios, sodina, sodian, doinas

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

View of the river

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈdoː.nis/, [äˈd̪oːnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdo.nis/, [äˈd̪ɔːnis]

Proper noun

Adōnis m sg (genitive Adōnidis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis
2. A river in Phoenicia, now the Abraham River

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Adōnis
genitive	Adōnidis Adōnis
dative	Adōnidī
accusative	Adōnidem Adōnem Adōnim Adōnin
ablative	Adōnide Adōne
vocative	Adōni

References

• “Adonis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “Adonis”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âdonis/
• Hyphenation: A‧do‧nis

Proper noun

Ȁdonis m (Cyrillic spelling А̏донис)

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis

References

• “Adonis”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Adonis, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdonis/ [ʔɐˈd̪oː.n̪ɪs]
• Rhymes: -onis
• Syllabification: A‧do‧nis
• Homophone: adonis

Proper noun

Adonis (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜈᜒᜐ᜔) (Greek mythology)

1. Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)

Related terms

• adonis

 

Further reading

• “Adonis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018