Medusa
Translingual
editProper noun
editMedusa f
- (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the phylum Cnidaria – diverse jellyfishes, now assigned to numerous other genera.
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editEnglish
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mɪˈdjuːsə/, /mɪˈdjuːzə/
- (US) enPR: mĭ'dū'sə, mĭ'dū'zə IPA(key): /məˈduːsə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːsə
- Hyphenation: Me‧dus‧a
Proper noun
editMedusa
- (Greek mythology) The youngest and only mortal of the three gorgon sisters, killed by Perseus.
- 1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201,
- On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (supra, p. 158) that Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.
- 2000, Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion, page 62:
- It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa, is a narrative version of ritual.
- 2001, Dennis Berthold, “Melville's Medusas”, in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou, editors, Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997:
- But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's Metamorphoses, Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using Medusa’s head to petrify the monster.
- 1895, Adolf Furtwängler, Eugenie Strong (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, 2010, →ISBN, page 201,
Derived terms
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editone of the Gorgons
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See also
editReferences
edit- Medusa (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMedusa f
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editMedusa
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meˈduː.sa/, [mɛˈd̪uːs̠ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈdu.sa/, [meˈd̪uːs̬ä]
Proper noun
editMedūsa f sg (genitive Medūsae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Medūsa |
Genitive | Medūsae |
Dative | Medūsae |
Accusative | Medūsam |
Ablative | Medūsā |
Vocative | Medūsa |
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Proper noun
editMedusa f
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa), from μέδω (médō, “rule over”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMedusa f
Turkish
editProper noun
editMedusa
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