Niobe
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Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē)
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Niobe
- (Greek mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
- (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
- A female given name
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Asteroid
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Niobe (plural Niobes)
- A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene xi]:
- There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book III, chapter 26:
- Here poor Mrs Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humoured face were sadly convulsed.
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Proper noun edit
Niobe f
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈni.o.beː/, [ˈniɔbeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈni.o.be/, [ˈniːobe]
Proper noun edit
Niobē f sg (genitive Niobēs); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Niobē |
Genitive | Niobēs |
Dative | Niobae |
Accusative | Niobēn |
Ablative | Niobē |
Vocative | Niobē |
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References edit
- “Niobe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Niobe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Niobe”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray