Erebus

== Translingual == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Erebus and Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos), the personification of darkness in Greek mythology. === Proper noun === Erebus f A taxonomic genus within the family Erebidae – certain moths. ==== Hypernyms ==== (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 – clade; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Noctuoidea – superfamily; Erebidae – family; Erebinae - subfamily; Erebini - tribr ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Erebus crepuscularis - type species ==== Descendants ==== → Arabic: أِرِبُوسَة (ʔiribūsa) === References === Erebus (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Erebus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Erebus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == English == === Alternative forms === Erebos === Etymology === From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛɹəbəs/ === Proper noun === 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. Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛ.rɛ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.re.bus] === Proper noun === Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension (Greek mythology) Erebus, whose equivalent in Roman mythology is Scotus. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== English: Erebus ==== References ==== “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.