Phoebus

== English == === Alternative forms === Phœbus (archaic) === Etymology === From Middle English Phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiː.bəs/ === Proper noun === Phoebus (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Helios; Phoebus Helios. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) An epithet and synonym for Apollo; Phoebus Apollo. 17th century, 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. ==== Translations ==== == 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.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.bus] === Proper noun === Phoebus m sg (genitive Phoebī); second declension (Greek mythology) Apollo, i.e. Phoebus Apollo, the "radiant one" ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== Phoebas Phoebēius Phoebēus ==== Descendants ==== → Middle English: Phebus, FebusEnglish: Phoebus → French: Phébus, Phœbus → Russian: Феб (Feb) === 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.