Niobe

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See also: Niobé, and niobé

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Niobe

  1. (Greek mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
  2. (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
  3. A female given name

Translations

Noun

Niobe (plural Niobes)

  1. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene xi]:
      There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson;  , →OCLC:
      But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book III, chapter 26:
      Here poor Mrs Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humoured face were sadly convulsed.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Proper noun

Niobe f

  1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Niobē f sg (genitive Niobēs); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Declension

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

singular
nominative Niobē
genitive Niobēs
dative Niobae
accusative Niobēn
ablative Niobē
vocative Niobē

References

  • “Niobe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Niobe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Niobe”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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