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sibyl

English

Etymology

Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Síbulla).

Noun

sibyl (plural sibyls)

  1. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
    • : Act III, Scene IV:
      A sibyl, that had number'd in the world
      The sun to course two hundred compasses,
      In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
    • 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland: Epigraph (translated from 61 Petronius' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)
      I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘Sibyl, what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek."

Translations

Anagrams

  • Sybil

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cassandra

English

Noun

cassandra

  1. Synonym of leather leaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata)
    • 1981, Timothy K. Kratz, The Formation of a Northern Wisconsin Kettle-hole Bog (page 19)
      Very commonly the forerunner of mat formation is the cassandra (Chamaedaphne calyculata). This shrub occurs both along the shore and along the edges of the advancing mat and frequently grows out several feet into the open water.

Italian

Noun

cassandra f (plural cassandre)

  1. storm petrel

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