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Sappho
Sap′pho
,Noun.
[See
Sapphic
.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus
Sappho
, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; – called also firetail
. Definition 2025
Sappho
Sappho
Translingual
Proper noun
Sappho f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – the red-tailed comet.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Animalia - kingdom; Chordata - phylum; Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Apodiformes - order; Trochilidae - family; Trochilinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Sappho sparganura - sole species
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276
English
Proper noun
Sappho
- An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by a poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown).
- (astronomy) Short for 80 Sappho, a main belt asteroid.
Translations
Greek female name
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ).
Proper noun
Sapphō f (genitive Sapphūs); fourth declension
Inflection
Fourth declension, with irregular nominative in -ō. Only the genitive and accusative are attested. The remaining forms have been reconstructed based on the Greek inflection.
| Number | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Sapphō |
| genitive | Sapphūs |
| dative | Sapphuī |
| accusative | Sapphō |
| ablative | Sapphuī |
| vocative | Sapphō |
Related terms
- Sapphicus
References
- Sappho in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press