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Image:Apollo_Artemis_Brygos_Louvre_G151.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Apollo and [[Artemis (1)]]

Etymology 1
From AGr. ���λλ�ν

Proper noun
Apollo
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1. (Greek, Roman mythology): The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana).<ref>Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology, Arthur Cotterell, Oxford University Press, 1986</ref> He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry;<ref name="Webster's c 2001">Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, 2001</ref> and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
2. A very handsome young man.<ref name="Webster's c 2001"/>
3. Space, U.S. A three-man spacecraft designed to travel to and land on the moon.
4. A town in Pennsylvania, USA.
5. A butterfly (Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings).

Etymology 2
From the object 1862 Apollo

Noun
eng-noun

1. astronomy An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axis|semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

Translations
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Arabic: ARchar|اب���|أب����� (�abóllu) m
French: Apollon m
Greek: polytonic|���λλ�ν (Apóllon) m
Italian: Apollo m
Japanese: ��� (Aporo)
trans-mid
Latin: Apollo (-inis) m
Portuguese: Apolo m
Russian: �поллон (Apollón) m
Spanish: Apolo m
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rfc-trans

Arabic: ARchar|اب���|أب����� (�abóllu) m
French: Apollon m
Greek: ���λλ�ν (Apóllon) m
Italian: Apollo m
mid
Japanese: ��� (Aporo)
Latin: Apollo (-inis) m
Russian: �поллон (Apollón) m
Spanish: Apolo m

References
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Category:Greek mythology
Category:Roman mythology

Italian

Proper noun
Apollo m

1. Apollo

Category:Italian nouns

Latin

Proper noun
Apollo m (genitive: Apollinis)

1. Apollo

Derived terms
Apollinaris

Category:Latin nouns

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