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Sibyl

//ˈsɪ.bəl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    "Be she as foul as Florentius' love, / As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd / As Socrates' Xanthippe, or worse, / She moves me not."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of sibyl. alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.

    "A Sybill that had numbred in the world The Sun to courſe, two hundred compaſſes, In her Prophetticke furie ſow'd the Worke:"

  2. 2
    (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet wordnet
  3. 3
    a woman who tells fortunes wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Síbulla).

Etymology 2

Latin Sibylla, Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Síbulla, “sibyl”), name of ancient Greek prophetesses.

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