different between tours vs phoenix

English

Noun

tours

1. plural of tour

Verb

tours

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tour

Anagrams

• Rusto, Stour, roust, routs, stour, sutor, torus

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

tours

1. Plural form of tour

French

Pronunciation

Noun

tours m or f

1. plural of tour

Anagrams

• trous

Spanish

Noun

tours

1. plural of tour

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