English Explanatory Dictionary

Pegasus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.
  2. 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.
noun
  1. Any winged horse; pterippus.
  2. A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
  3. Poetic inspiration; muse.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Pegasus.

Pronunciation

pĕɡʹ-ə-səs /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pegasus.wav

Word forms

Pegasus Pegasos Pegasuses Pegasi

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Pegasus

Related words

Bellerophon Enif

Derived words

Peg Pegasi Square of Pegasus pegacorn Pigasus unisus pegasister unipeg

Translations

Bashkir: толпар Bashkir: Пегас Burmese: ဝလာဟကမြင်း Cherokee: Ꮗ̃ᎦᏒᏍ Chinese Mandarin: 珀伽索斯 Chinese Mandarin: 天馬 /天马 Czech: Pegas Esperanto: Pegazo Finnish: Pegasus French: Pégase Galician: Pegaso Georgian: მერანი German: Pegasos German: Pegasus Greek: Πήγασος Ancient Greek: Πήγασος Hungarian: Pégaszosz Hungarian: Pegazus Indonesian: sembrani Inuktitut: ᐲᒐᓱᔅ Irish: Peigeasas Italian: Pegaso Japanese: ペーガソス Latin: Pēgasos Latin: Pēgasus Marathi: पेगासस Polish: Pegaz Portuguese: Pégaso Romanian: Pegas Russian: Пегас Spanish: Pegaso Sundanese: samparani Turkish: Pegasus Turkish: Tulpar Ukrainian: Пега́с Arabic: حِصَان مُجَنِّح Arabic: بِيغَاسُوس Asturian: pegasu Bengali: পক্ষীরাজ ঘোড়া Catalan: pegàs Dutch: pegasus French: pégase Galician: pegaso German: Pegasus Hebrew: פגסוס Indonesian: kuda semberani Indonesian: kuda beraksa Indonesian: kuda bersayap Indonesian: kuda pegasus Italian: pegaso Japanese: ペガサス Japanese: 天馬 Korean: 페가수스 Korean: 천마 Northern Kurdish: hespê çengdar Macedonian: пегаз Norwegian: pegasus Persian: پِگاسوس Polish: pegaz Portuguese: pégaso Russian: пега́с Serbo-Croatian: pegaz Spanish: pegaso Swedish: pegas Turkish: tulpar
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