see|Phoenix
English
wikipedia

Alternative spellings
phenix
ph�nix
pheonix

Etymology
From L. phoenix#Latin|phoenix, from AGr. polytonic|�ο�νιξ (phoinix), the mythical bird first described here:
:*There is also another sacred bird called the ph�nix which I did not myself see except in painting, for in truth he comes to them very rarely, at intervals, as the people of Heliopolis say, of five hundred years; and these say that he comes regularly when his father dies; and if he be like the painting, he is of this size and nature, that is to say, some of his feathers are of gold colour and others red, and in outline and size he is as nearly as possible like an eagle. This bird they say (but I cannot believe the story) contrives as follows:--setting forth from Arabia he conveys his father, they say, to the temple of the Sun (Helios) plastered up in myrrh, and buries him in the temple of the Sun; and he conveys him thus:--he forms first an egg of myrrh as large as he is able to carry, and then he makes trial of carrying it, and when he has made trial sufficiently, then he hollows out the egg and places his father within it and plasters over with other myrrh that part of the egg where he hollowed it out to put his father in, and when his father is laid in it, it proves (they say) to be of the same weight as it was; and after he has plastered it up, he conveys the whole to Egypt to the temple of the Sun. Thus they say that this bird does. � Herodotus, The Histories, Book II:73 (G.C. Macaulay translation).

Pronunciation
enPR|f�'nĭks, IPA|/�fi�nɪks/, SAMPA|/"fi:nIks/
rhymes|i�nɪks

Noun
en-noun|phoenix

1. mythology A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
2. figuratively Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile. Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

Translations
trans-top|mythological bird
ttbc|Arabic: ا�ع��اء
Chinese: ��
Croatian: t-|hr|feniks|m, t-|hr|žar-ptica|f
Danish: t-|da|føniks|c
Dutch: t-|nl|feniks|m
Esperanto: t-|eo|fenikso|xs=Esperanto
Finnish: t-|fi|feeniks
French: t-|fr|phénix|m
German: t+|de|Phönix
Greek: t-|el|�οίνικα�|m|sc=Grek (foínikas)
Icelandic: t-|is|fönix
Italian: t-|it|fenice|f
trans-mid
Japanese: JAchar|�死鳥 (fushich�), JAchar|������ (fenikkusu)
Korean: ��조 [�死鳥] (bulsajo)
Maltese: t-|mt|Feni�ju|xs=Maltese
Norwegian: t-|no|føniks|m, t-|no|ildfugl|m
Polish: t-|pl|feniks|m
Portuguese: fênix f (Brazil), fénix f (Portugal)
Romanian: t-|ro|fenix|m
Russian: �еник� /f'éniks/ m
Slovak: t-|sk|fénix|m
Slovene: t+|sl|feniks|m
Spanish: t-|es|fénix|m
Swedish: t-|sv|fenix|c
Welsh: ffenics m
trans-bottom

trans-top|anything reborn after apparently being destroyed
Croatian: t-|hr|feniks|m
Dutch: t-|nl|feniks|m
Norwegian: t-|no|føniks|m
trans-mid
Japanese: JAchar|�死鳥 (fushich�)
Korean: ��조 [�死鳥] (bulsajo)
Portuguese: fênix f (Brazil), fénix f (Portugal)
trans-bottom

Translations to be checked
rfc-level|Translations to be checked at L5+, not in Translations
checktrans
trans-top|Translations to be checked
ttbc|Afrikaans: feniks
ttbc|Catalan: fènix m
ttbc|Faroese: føniks
trans-mid
ttbc|Indonesian: phoenix
ttbc|Persian: س��رغ (simorgh)
trans-bottom

Category:Mythological creatures

Latin

Noun
la-noun|phoenīx|phoenicis|phoenīcis|f|third

1. a phoenix

Inflection
ladecl3par
la-decl-3rd-PAR|F|phoenīx|phoenīc

fr:phoenix
gl:phoenix
io:phoenix
it:phoenix
pl:phoenix
te:phoenix
vi:phoenix
zh:phoenix

• 2007-11-27 04:13 - Tbot - updated t/t-/t+ templates, added t for da, sk

Full Revision History