Translingual

Pegasus lancifer

Etymology

Latin Pegasus ‎(“mythical white winged stallion of Medusa and Poseidon”)

Proper noun

Pegasus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pegasidae – small fish with pectoral fins and body covered with hard, bony plates, from the East Indies and China.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Gasterosteiformes - order; Pegasidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Pegasus lancifer, Pegasus laternarius, Pegasus volitans - species

English

Pegasus and Bellerophon, from Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Ed.):Myths Every Child Should Know (1914) (1)

Proper noun

Pegasus

1. (Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
2. (astronomy) An autumn constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, said to resemble the mythical horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus. It contains the stars Markab and Algenib.

Translations

Noun

Pegasus ‎(plural Pegasi)

1. (historical) A coin of ancient Corinth, with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
   • 2007 February 15, Talbert, R. J. A., Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521034135, OL 7715039M, page 167:

     Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.

See also

• Bellerophon
• Enif

Dutch

Proper noun

Pegasus m

1. (Greek mythology) Pegasus
2. (astronomy) Pegasus

Finnish

Proper noun

Pegasus

1. (astronomy) The constellation Pegasus.

Declension

See also

• Pegasos

English

Noun

pegasus ‎(plural pegasuses or pegasi)

1. A winged horse (imaginary or mythical, sometimes figurative).

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πήγασος ‎(Pḗgasos)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeː.ɡa.sʊs]

Noun

pēgasus m ‎(genitive pēgasī); second declension

1. pegasus (a winged horse or a bird with a horse's head, suspected to live in Africa)
   • c. 43 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.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi

     Illius caeli ales est pegasus, sed haec ales equinum nihil praeter aures habet.

     In that climate lives the bird pegasus, but this winged creature has nothing equine except ears.

Inflection

Second declension.