Morpheus

Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː.fɪ.əs/, /ˈmɔː.fjuːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ.fɪ.əs/, /ˈmɔɹˌfjus/
• Hyphenation: Mor‧phe‧us

Morpheus

2. (Greek mythology) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.

   Coordinate terms: (nightmares) Phobetor, (inanimate objects in prophetic dreams) Phantasos, (people in prophetic dreams) Ikelos

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• sophumer, humpsore

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
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Morpheus m sg (genitive Morpheos or Morpheī or Morphei); second declension

1. Morpheus
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.633–635:

     “At pater e populo natorum mille suorum excitat artificem simulatoremque figurae Morphea”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• “Morpheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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1. (Greek mythology) Morpheus