Niobe

Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/

Niobe f

1. (Greek Mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
2. (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name

Niobe (plural Niobes)

1. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Troilus & Cressida, V.11:

     There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?

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Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē)

Niobe f

1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.o.beː/, [ˈni.ɔ.beː]

Niobē f (genitive Niobēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

First declension, Greek type.

• Niobēus
• Niobīdēs

• Niobe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Niobe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Niobe in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray