Erebus
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
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Proper noun
[edit]Erebus f
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Noctuoidea - superfamily; Erebidae - family; Erebinae - subfamily; Erebini - tribr
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Erebus crepuscularis - type species
References
[edit]Erebus (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Erebus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Erebus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Erebus
- (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
- (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
- Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.
- A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
Translations
[edit]mythology
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛrɛbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛːrebus]
Proper noun
[edit]Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension
Descendants
[edit]- English: Erebus
References
[edit]- “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Erebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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