different between phoenix vs eagle

English

Alternative forms

• phenix (archaic)
• phœnix (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoen?x, from Ancient Greek ?????? (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?'n?ks, IPA^(key): /?fi?n?ks/
• Rhymes: -i?n?ks

Noun

phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)

1. (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.

3. (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
4. (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.

Translations

Further reading

• phoenix (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fenghuang on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phoenix (currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?p?oe?.ni?ks/, [?p?oe?ni?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.niks/, [?f??niks]

Noun

phoen?x f (genitive phoen?cis); third declension

1. phoenix

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Noun

phoen?x m (genitive phoen?cis); third declension

1. Phoenician

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Adjective

phoen?x (genitive phoen?cis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. Phoenician

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

Synonyms

• (Phoenician): phoen?cius

Related terms

(Phoenician):

• Phoen?cia
• phoen?cius

References

(phoenix):

• phoenix, ?cis, m. in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phoen?x ?cis ?acc. ?ca, O.), m in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoenix in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

(Phoenician):

• Phoenix, ?cis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phoen?ces, um, m. and sing. Phoenix s.v. Phoen?c?, ?s, f. in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???l/
• Rhymes: -i???l

Noun

eagle (plural eagles)

1. Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

   Synonyms: erne, broadwing

2. (US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
3. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
4. (golf) A score of two under par for a hole.

Coordinate terms

(golf):

• buzzard
• bogey
• par
• birdie
• albatross
• condor
• ostrich

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (13th-c. counterfeit coin):
  • pollard
  • rosary
  • mitre
  • leonine
  • scalding
  • crockard
  • steeping

Verb

eagle (third-person singular simple present eagles, present participle eagling, simple past and past participle eagled)

1. (golf) To score an eagle.

Translations

Further reading

• Eagle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Aegle, aglee

Danish

Etymology

From English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i???l]

Noun

eagle c (singular definite eaglen, plural indefinite eagler)

1. (golf) eagle (two under par)

References

• “eagle” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English eagle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?l/

Noun

eagle m (plural eagles)

1. (golf) eagle

Coordinate terms

• bogey
• birdie
• albatros