Apollo

See also: apollo and Apol·lo

English

Apollo (1) and Artemis

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpɒləʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /əˈpɑloʊ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
  • Hyphenation: Apol‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Proper noun

Apollo

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      ‘Blue are the hills that are far away,’ is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man’s fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.
  2. (astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
  3. (astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
  4. (US space program) A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.
    Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time.
  5. (with "the") Apollo Theatre, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
  6. A male given name.
  7. A placename.

Noun

Apollo (countable and uncountable, plural Apollos)

  1. (countable) Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).
    Alternative form: apollo
  2. (countable) A very handsome young man.
    Alternative form: apollo
  3. (West Africa, uncountable) Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
    • 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 11:
      After that, children in school said you could get Apollo, a form of conjunctivitis, by staring at an eclipse too long.
    • 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 133:
      Her eyes hurt and when her mother looked at her in the morning and worried that she had Apollo because her eyes were so red she did not tell her otherwise.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): Hermes
Derived terms
Translations

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Etymology 2

From the object 1862 Apollo.

Noun

Apollo (plural Apollos)

  1. (astronomy) An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.
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Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈpɔl.lo/, /aˈpol.lo/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔllo, -ollo
  • Hyphenation: A‧pòl‧lo, A‧pól‧lo

Proper noun

Apollo m

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “Apollo” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn). Cognate with Faliscan 𐌀𐌐𐌏𐌋𐌏 (apolo).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

Declension

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

singular plural
nominative Apollō Apollinēs
genitive Apollinis
Apollōnis 		Apollinum
dative Apollinī
Apollōnī 		Apollinibus
accusative Apollinem
Apollōnem 		Apollinēs
ablative Apolline
Apollōne 		Apollinibus
vocative Apollō Apollinēs

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • Apollināris
  • Apollineus

References

  • “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Apollo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Apollo”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “Apollo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Apollo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle English

Proper noun

Apollo

  1. alternative form of Appolyn

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Apollō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑ.pol.loː/, [ˈɑ.poɫ.ɫoː]

Proper noun

Apollō m

  1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative Apollō —
accusative Apollō —
genitive Apollōnes, Apollines —
dative Apollōne, Apolline —

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn)
Latin Apollōlbor.
Polish Apollo

    Learned borrowing from Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /aˈpɔl.lɔ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔllɔ
    • Syllabification: A‧pol‧lo
    • Homophone: apollo

    Proper noun

    Apollo m pers

    1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo (son of Zeus)

    Declension

    Declension of Apollo
    singular
    nominative Apollo
    genitive Apolla, Apollina
    dative Apollinowi, Apollowi
    accusative Apolla, Apollina
    instrumental Apollem, Apollinem
    locative Apollinie, Apollu
    vocative Apollinie, Apollu

    Proper noun

    Apollo m pers

    1. (rare) a male given name, equivalent to English Apollo

    Declension

    Declension of Apollo
    singular plural
    nominative Apollo Apollinowie, Apollowie, Apolle1, Apolliny1
    genitive Apolla Apollinów, Apollów
    dative Apollowi Apollinom, Apollom
    accusative Apolla Apollinów, Apollów
    instrumental Apollem Apollami, Apollinami
    locative Apollu Apollach, Apollinach
    vocative Apollu Apollinowie, Apollowie

    1Deprecative.

    Further reading

    • “Apollo”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “Apollo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /aˈpɔ.lu/

    Etymology 1

      Unadapted borrowing from English Apollo.

      Proper noun

      Apollo f

      1. Apollo (American three-man spacecraft)
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      Etymology 2

      Proper noun

      Apollo m

      1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Apolo

      Swedish

      Etymology

      Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

      Proper noun

      Apollo c (genitive Apollos)

      1. (Greek mythology) Apollo

      See also

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