pegasus
English edit
Etymology edit
From the mythical Pegasus.
Noun edit
pegasus (plural pegasuses or pegasi)
- A winged horse (imaginary or mythical, sometimes figurative).
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
winged horse
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Cebuano edit
Etymology 1 edit
From English pegasus, from Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).
Noun edit
pegasus
- a pegasus; a winged horse
Etymology 2 edit
Horse from Red Horse Beer, wings from Gold Eagle Beer and St. Michael the Archangel standing in for Bellerophon or Perseus.
Noun edit
pegasus
- a cocktail using Red Horse Beer and Gold Eagle Beer and Ginebra San Miguel
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]
Noun edit
pēgasus m (genitive pēgasī); second declension
- 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.
- Sunt mirae aves cornutae tragopanes et equinis auribus pegasi.
- 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.
- 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley
- Aethiopia generat […] pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos pegasos vocant.
- 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.
- 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley
- Pegasos equino capite volucres et grypas aurita aduncitate rostri fabulosos reor, illos in Scythia, hos in Aethiopia.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | pēgasus | pēgasī |
Genitive | pēgasī | pēgasōrum |
Dative | pēgasō | pēgasīs |
Accusative | pēgasum | pēgasōs |
Ablative | pēgasō | pēgasīs |
Vocative | pēgase | pēgasī |