pegasus

See also: Pegasus and Pégasus

English

Etymology

From the mythical Pegasus.

Noun

pegasus (plural pegasuses or pegasi)

1. A winged horse (imaginary or mythical, sometimes figurative).

Synonyms

• pterippus

Translations

winged horse

• Arabic: حِصَان مُجَنِّح (ḥiṣān mujanniḥ), بِيغَاسُوس (bīḡāsūs)
• Asturian: pegasu m
• Bengali: পক্ষীরাজ ঘোড়া (pokkhiraj ghōṛa)
• Catalan: pegàs (ca) m
• Dutch: pegasus
• French: pégase (fr) m
• Galician: pegaso m
• German: Pegasus (de) m
• Hebrew: פגסוס m (pégasus)
• Indonesian: kuda semberani (id), kuda beraksa (id), kuda bersayap, kuda pegasus
• Italian: pegaso (it) m
• Japanese: ペガサス (ja) (pegasasu), 天馬 (ja) (tenma)
• Korean: 페가수스 (pegasuseu), 천마 (ko) (cheonma)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hespê çengdar

• Macedonian: пегаз m (pegaz)
• Norwegian: pegasus c
• Persian: پِگاسوس (pegâsus)
• Polish: pegaz m
• Portuguese: pégaso m
• Russian: пега́с (ru) m (pegás)
• Serbo-Croatian: pegaz m
• Spanish: pegaso m
• Swedish: pegas (sv) c
• Turkish: tulpar (from Mongo-Turkic mythology)

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From English pegasus, from Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

Noun

pegasus

1. a pegasus; a winged horse

Etymology 2

Horse from Red Horse Beer, wings from Gold Eagle Beer and St. Michael the Archangel standing in for Bellerophon or Perseus.

Noun

pegasus

1. a cocktail using Red Horse Beer and Gold Eagle Beer and Ginebra San Miguel

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]

Noun

pēgasus m (genitive pēgasī); second declension

1. pegasus (a winged horse or a bird with a horse's head, suspected to live in Africa)
   • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis libri III 3:

     Sunt mirae aves cornutae tragopanes et equinis auribus pegasi.

     [In Africa] there are wonderful birds: horned tragopans and pegasi with horse's ears.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.72:

     Aethiopia generat […] pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos pegasos vocant.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       Æthiopia produces […] horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called pegasi.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.26:

     Pegasos equino capite volucres et grypas aurita aduncitate rostri fabulosos reor, illos in Scythia, hos in Aethiopia.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       I look upon the birds as fabulous which are called "pegasi," and are said to have a horse's head; as also the griffons, with long ears and a hooked beak. The former are said to be natives of Scythia, the latter of Æthiopia.

   • c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi :

     Illius caeli ales est pegasus, sed haec ales equinum nihil praeter aures habet.

     In that climate lives the bird pegasus, but this winged creature has nothing equine except ears.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēgasus	pēgasī
Genitive	pēgasī	pēgasōrum
Dative	pēgasō	pēgasīs
Accusative	pēgasum	pēgasōs
Ablative	pēgasō	pēgasīs
Vocative	pēgase	pēgasī