"What does Phoebus mean?" "It's a Latin word that means sun."
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Phoebus
/ˈfiː.bəs/
Synonyms for "phoebus" (89 found)
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Translations
11 translations across 10 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Φοῖβος name (divine epithet)
Esperanto
1 entries- Febo name (divine epithet)
French
2 entries- Phébus name (divine epithet)
- Phœbus name (divine epithet)
Greek
1 entries- Φοίβος name (divine epithet)
Japanese
1 entries- ポイボス name (divine epithet)
Korean
1 entries- 포이보스 name (divine epithet)
Latin
1 entries- Phoebus name (divine epithet)
Polish
1 entries- Febus name (divine epithet)
Russian
1 entries- Феб name (divine epithet)
Spanish
1 entries- Febo name (divine epithet)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
This fruit, maiden, was produced and cherished by the Hours; Phoebus matured it with his beams, and Fortune has preserved it.
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Thus Venus spake, and thus fair Venus' son replies: / "Nought of thy sisters have I heard or seen. / What name, O maiden, shall I give to thee, / for mortal never had thy voice or mien? / O Goddess surely, whether Nymph I see, / or Phoebus' sister."
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"Who knows not Troy, th' AEneian house of fame, / the deeds and doers, and the war's renown / that fired the world? Not hearts so dull and tame / have Punic folk; not so is Phoebus known / to turn his back upon our Tyrian town."
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