Prometheus

Translingual

Prometheus cochrus

Proper noun

Prometheus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Castniidae – certain moths.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Cossoidea – superfamily; Castniidae – family; Castniinae – subfamily; Gazerini – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Prometheus annae, Prometheus cochrus, Prometheus cononia, Prometheus ecuadoria, Prometheus heliconioides, Prometheus mimica, Prometheus personata, Prometheus polymorpha, Prometheus simulans, Prometheus zagraea – species

References

• Prometheus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prometheus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Castniidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Prometheus brings fire to mankind (1817, Heinrich Füger)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús), from πρό (pró, “before”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to think”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈmiːθi.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈmiθi.əs/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Prometheus

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
2. (Greek mythology) The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.
3. (astronomy) A moon of the planet Saturn.

Derived terms

• Promethean
• promethium

Translations

Greek mythological figure

• Afrikaans: Prometeus, Prometheus
• Albanian: Prometeu
• Arabic: بْرُومِيثْيُوس m (brumīṯyūs)

  Egyptian Arabic: بروميثيوس

• Armenian: Պրոմեթեւս (hy) (Prometʻews), Պրոմեթևս (hy) (Prometʻews)
• Asturian: Prometéu
• Azerbaijani: Prometey
• Bashkir: Прометей (Prumitiy)
• Basque: Prometeo (eu)
• Belarusian: Праметэй (Pramjetej)
• Bengali: প্রমিথিউস (promithius)
• Breton: Prometheüs
• Bulgarian: Прометей (Prometej)
• Burmese: ပရာမီးသီးယပ်စ် (pa.rami:si:yapc)
• Catalan: Prometeu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普羅米修斯 / 普罗米修斯 (zh) (Pǔluómǐxiūsī)

• Chuvash: Прометей (Promet̬ej)
• Czech: Prométheus m
• Danish: Prometheus
• Dutch: Prometheus
• Esperanto: Prometeo
• Estonian: Prometheus (et)
• Extremaduran: Prometeu
• Finnish: Prometheus (fi), Prometheas, Prometeus
• French: Prométhée (fr) m
• Galician: Prometeo (gl) m
• Georgian: პრომეთე (ṗromete)
• German: Prometheus (de) m
• Greek: Προμηθέας (el) m (Promithéas)

  Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς (Promētheús)

• Hebrew: פרומתאוס
• Hungarian: Prométheusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Prómeþeifur m
• Indonesian: Prometheus
• Irish: Proiméitéas m
• Italian: Prometeo m
• Japanese: プロメテウス (ja) (Purometeusu)
• Javanese: Prométhéus
• Kazakh: Прометей (Prometey)
• Korean: 프로메테우스 (Peuromete'useu)
• Kyrgyz: Прометей (Prometey)
• Latin: Promētheus m
• Latvian: Prometejs
• Lithuanian: Prometėjas
• Luxembourgish: Prometheus
• Macedonian: Прометеј (Prometej)
• Malay: Prometheus
• Marathi: प्रॉमीथीयस (prŏmīthīyas)
• Mongolian: Прометей (Prometej)
• Norwegian: Prometeus
• Occitan: Prometèu
• Persian: پرومته, پرومتئوس
• Polish: Prometeusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Prometeu (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੋਮੀਥੀਅਸ (promīthīas)

  Western Punjabi: پرومیتھیس (promethes)

• Romanian: Prometeu
• Russian: Промете́й (ru) m (Prometɛ́j)
• Scots: Prometheus
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Промѐтеј m

  Latin: Promètej (sh) m

• Slovak: Prometeus, Prométheus, Prometheus
• Slovene: Prometej (sl)
• Spanish: Prometeo (es) m
• Swahili: Prometheus (sw)
• Swedish: Prometheus
• Tagalog: Prometeo, Prometheus
• Tajik: Прометей (Prometey)
• Tatar: Прометей (Prometey)
• Thai: โพรมีเทียส
• Turkish: Prometheus
• Ukrainian: Промете́й m (Prometéj)
• Urdu: پرومیتھیس
• Uzbek: Prometey
• Vietnamese: Prometheus
• Waray-Waray: Prometheus
• Welsh: Promethëws
• Yakut: Прометей (Prometey)

Further reading

• Prometheus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús).

Proper noun

Prometheus (genitive Prometheus')

1. (Greek mythology) Prometheus

German

Etymology

From Latin Promēthe͡us or from Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Prometheus m (genitive Prometheus or Prometheus')

1. (Greek mythology) Prometheus

Related terms

• prometheisch, Prometheisch

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Ancient Greek πρό (pró)

Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)

Proto-Indo-European *men-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *men(s)dʰh₁-der.

Proto-Hellenic *məntʰánō

Ancient Greek μᾰνθᾰ́νω (mănthắnō)

Ancient Greek μᾰθεῖν (mătheîn)

Ancient Greek *μῆθος, *μᾶθος (*mêthos, *mâthos)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Proto-Hellenic *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek προμηθής (promēthḗs)

Pre-Greekder.?

Proto-Hellenic *-eús

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús)bor.

Latin Promētheus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɔˈmeː.tʰɛu̯s]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈmɛː.teu̯s]

Proper noun

Promētheus m sg (genitive Promētheī or Promētheos); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Prometheus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Promētheus
genitive	Promētheī Promētheos
dative	Promētheō
accusative	Promētheum Promēthea
ablative	Promētheō
vocative	Promētheu

Related terms

• Promēthēus
• Promēthīdēs

References

• “Prŏmētheus (trisyl. )”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Prŏmētheūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1253.
• “Promētheus” on page 1484/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)