Erebus

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Erebus f

1. 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 - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Noctuoidea - superfamily; Erebidae - family; Erebinae - subfamily; Erebini - tribr

Hyponyms

• (genus): Erebus crepuscularis - type species

References

• Erebus (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erebus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Erebus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Alternative forms

• Erebos

Etymology

From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹəbəs/

Proper noun

Erebus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
2. (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

     Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
     Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
     UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
     This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
     To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.

3. A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

Translations

mythology

• Catalan: Èreb m
• Danish: Erebos
• French: Érèbe (fr) m
• Greek: Έρεβος (el) (Érevos)
• Greenlandic: Erebosi
• Inuktitut: ᐄᕆᐳᔅ (iiripos)
• Latin: Erebus m
• Russian: Эреб (ru) m (Ereb)
• Spanish: Érebo
• Ukrainian: Ере́б m (Eréb)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛrɛbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛːrebus]

Proper noun

Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Érebos, whose equivalent in Roman mythology is Scotus.

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.