Phebus
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Phebus
- Obsolete spelling of Phoebus
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9:
- As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weft, […]
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Etymology edit
From Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “[the] Radiant [One]”).
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Phebus
- (mythology) In Greek mythology, the god governing the sun; Phoebus, Apollo.
- (astronomy, sometimes uncapitalised) The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.
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- English: Phoebus
References edit
- “phebus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.