Pegasus

珀伽索斯

发音

其它 /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/

词形变化

Pegasi Pegasuses 复数 Pegasuses Pegasi 复数

别名

pegasus Pegasos

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any winged horse; pterippus.

  2. 2.

    Any winged horse; pterippus.

    A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.

    历史
  3. 3.

    Poetic inspiration; muse.

    古体
name
  1. 1.

    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.

    珀伽索斯

    天马

    宗教 神话 哲学
  2. 2.

    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.

    A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

    飞马座

    天文 宗教 神话 哲学

相关短语

Square of Pegasus

词源

From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.

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