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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύχη (Túkhē), from τύχη (túkhē, “fortune”). Compare Latin Tychō.
Proper noun
Tyche (plural Tychai or Tyches)
- (Greek mythology, in the singular) The goddess of luck/fortune; counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.
1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12:The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.15 "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."19 Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones […] .
- 2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113,
- At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.
- (Hellenistic period) Any of several city goddesses, typically regarded as aspects of the goddess of fortune.
- Tyche of Antioch
- Tyche of Constantinople
2011, Alexei Sivertsev, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, page 90:The Tyches of individual cities featured prominently in late ancient art and coinage.
- (astronomy) The main belt asteroid 258 Tyche.
Translations
Greek goddess of luck/fortune
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