Phoebe

Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē)

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lauraceae – tropical and subtropical evergreen trees, native to Asia and the Americas.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, magnoliids - clades; Laurales - order; Lauraceae - family

• (genus): Phoebe lanceolata - type species. For some of the more than 100 species see Phoebe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Phoebe (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoebe on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Phoebe (Lauraceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Phoebe at The Plant List

• Phœbe
• (given name) Phebe, Phœbë

Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfibi/
• Rhymes: -iːbi

Phoebe

1. A female given name.
2. (Greek mythology) A Titan, goddess of the moon, sister-wife of Coeus, and daughter of Uranus and Gaia.
3. (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Selene; Phoebe Selene, after her maternal aunt, Phoebe (see above).
4. (Greek mythology) An epithet and synonym for Artemis; Phoebe Artemis, after her maternal grandmother, Phoebe (see above).
5. (astronomy) The 14th moon of Saturn.

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto II, stanza 44:

  Now hath faire Phoebe with her silver face / Thrise seene the shadowes of the neather world

• 1901 American Standard Bible: Romans 16:1:

  I commend unto you Phoebe our sister who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae.

• Phoebean

• Phoebus

• behope, ephebo

From Ancient Greek Φοίβη (Phoíbē), feminine form of Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “bright”). As a given name, partially from Phoebe Cates.

Phoebe

1. a female given name
2. a moon of Saturn
3. (Greek mythology) Phoebe

Phoebe

1. vocative singular of Phoebus

• Phoebe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phoebe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Phoebe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette