Pegasus
noun/ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/
Etymology From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.
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Fantasy Also Any winged horse; a pterippus.
Occasionally proscribed
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Fantasy Also, Historical A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
Occasionally proscribed
- Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:
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Archaic Poetic inspiration; muse.
- Related terms
- Bellerophon, Enif