Phebus

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English

Proper noun

Phebus

Obsolete spelling of Phoebus.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9:
  As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weft, […]

Middle English

Alternative forms

Febus

Etymology

From Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “ Radiant ”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːbus/

Proper noun

Phebus

(mythology) In Greek mythology, the god governing the sun; Phoebus, Apollo.
(astronomy, sometimes uncapitalised) The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.

Synonyms

(god): Appolyn
(planet): sonne, sol

Descendants

English: Phoebus

References

“phebus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.

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