phoenix

• phenix (archaic)
• phœnix (obsolete)

From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.[1]

• enPR: fē'nĭks, IPA^(key): /ˈfiːnɪks/
• Rhymes: -iːnɪks

phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)

1. (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood

2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.

   Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.

3. (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
4. (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoe̯.niːks/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.niks/, [ˈfɛː.niks]

phoenīx f (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

1. phoenix

Third declension i-stem.

phoenīx m (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

1. Phoenician

Third declension.

phoenīx (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

1. Phoenician

Third declension, non-i-stem (genitive plural in -um).

• (Phoenician): phoenīcius

(Phoenician):

• Phoenīcia
• phoenīcius

(phoenix):

• phoenix, īcis, m. in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phoenīx īcis （acc. īca, O.), m in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoenix in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

(Phoenician):

• Phoenix, īcis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phoenīces, um, m. and sing. Phoenix s.v. Phoenīcē, ēs, f. in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press