different between apollo vs hyacinthus

English

Etymology

From Apollo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?lo?/
• Rhymes: -?l??
• Hyphenation: Apol?lo

Noun

apollo (plural apollos)

1. A very handsome young man.
2. (entomology) Any of several papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius, especially Parnassius apollo of Eurasia (also known as the mountain apollo).

Translations

Further reading

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• palolo

Italian

Etymology

From the name of the Greek god of beauty, Apollo, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Apóll?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?p?l.lo/
• Rhymes: -?llo

Noun

apollo m (plural apolli)

1. A young man of great beauty, an apollo.
2. Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings)

Synonyms

• (man of great beauty): adone
• apolline

Hypernyms

• (man): uomo, essere umano
• (butterfly): farfalla

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (huákinthos), but ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hy.a?kin.t?us/, [hyä?k?n?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.a?t??in.tus/, [i??t??in?t?us]

Noun

hyacinthus m (genitive hyacinth?); second declension

1. iris (plant)
2. sapphire

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: jacint
• English: hyacinth
• Spanish: jacinto
• Hungarian: jácint

References

• hyacinthus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hyacinthus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hyacinthus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray