The Ancient Greek word for butterfly is
σητόδοκις
Translations for butterfly and their definitions
| σητόδοκις | |
| 1. butterfly |
| ψυχή | |
| 1. n. The animating principle of a human or animal body, vital spirit, soul, life (the animating principle of life). | |
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| 2. n. (poetic) Life-breath, life-blood (‘the animating principle of life’ in corporeal interpretation). | |
| Ἀτρεΐδης δ’ ἄρ’ ἔπειθ’ Ὑπερήνορα ποιμένα λαῶν / οὖτα κατὰ λαπάρην, διὰ δ’ ἔντερα χαλκὸς ἄφυσσεδῃώσας: ψυχὴ δὲ κατ’ οὐταμένην ὠτειλὴν / ἔσσυτ’ ἐπειγομένη, τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψε. - Menelaus t | |
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| 3. n. (philosophy, since the early physicists) Animating principle in primary substances, the source of life and consciousness. | |
| ψυχῇσιν θάνατος ὕδωρ γενέσθαι, ὕδατι δὲ θάνατος γῆν γενέσθαι, ἐκ γῆς δὲ ὕδωρ γίνεται, ἐξ ὕδατος δὲ ψυχή. - For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But wate | |
| ἔοικε δὲ καὶ Θαλῆς ἐξ ὧν ἀπομνημονεύουσι κινητικόν τι τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπολαβεῖν, εἴπερ τὴν λίθον ἔφη ψυχὴν ἔχειν, ὅτι τὸν σίδηρον κινεῖ· - Thales, too, from what has been recorded of him, seems to ha | |
| 4. n. Animate existence, viewed as a possession, one’s life. | |
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| πάντας δὲ δόλους καὶ μῆτιν ὕφαινον, / ὥς τε περὶ ψυχῆς· μέγα γὰρ κακὸν ἐγγύθεν ἦεν. - And I wove all manner of wiles and counsel, as a man will in a matter of life and death; for great was the | |
| 5. n. The spirit or soul thought of as distinct from the body and leaving it at death (the immortal part of a person). | |
| μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος / οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί’ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε’ ἔθηκε,πολλὰς δ’ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἄϊδι προΐαψεν / ἡρώων, αὐτοὺς δὲ ἑλώρια τεῦχε κύνεσσινοἰωνοῖσί τε πᾶσι, Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βου | |
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| 6. n. A disembodied spirit, a shade or ghost (the spirit of a dead person). | |
| 7. n. * 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey, 23.362 f. and 24.1 f.: | |
| 8. n. *: αὐτίκα γὰρ φάτις εἶσιν ἅμ’ ἠελίῳ ἀνιόντι / ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων, οὓς ἔκτανον ἐν μεγάροισιν: | |
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| 10. n. *: Ἑρμῆς δὲ ψυχὰς Κυλλήνιος ἐξεκαλεῖτο / ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων: (...) | |
| 11. n. *:: Robert Fagles’ translation (1996): | |
| 12. n. *::: Go quick as the rising sun the news will spread / of the suitors that I killed inside the house. | |
| 13. n. *::: ¶ | |
| 14. n. *::: Now Cyllenian Hermes called away the suitors’ ghosts, (...) | |
| 15. n. Spirit (animated attitude), conscious self, personality as centre of emotions, desires and affections, heart. | |
| Θηβᾶν ἀπὸ Καδμεϊᾶν μορφὰν βραχύς, ψυχὰν δ’ ἄκαμπτος, προσπαλαίσων ἦλθ’ ἀνὴρ / τὰν πυροφόρον Λιβύαν, κρανίοις ὄφρα ξένων ναὸν Ποσειδάωνος ἐρέφοντα σχέθοι, / υἱὸς Ἀλκμήνας - And yet once there we | |
| ἢν δέ τις ἄρα βουληθῇ καὶ πομπικῷ καὶ μετεώρῳ καὶ λαμπρῷ ἵππῳ χρήσασθαι, οὐ μάλα μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐκ παντὸς ἵππου γίγνεται, ἀλλὰ δεῖ ὑπάρξαι αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν μεγαλόφρονα καὶ τὸ σῶμα εὔρωστον. - | |
| 16. n. (philosophy, since Platon) The spirit of the universe, the immaterial principle of movement and life. | |
| ψυχὴν δὲ εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτοῦ θεὶς διὰ παντός τε ἔτεινεν καὶ ἔτι ἔξωθεν τὸ σῶμα αὐτῇ περιεκάλυψεν, ... - And in the midst thereof He set Soul, which He stretched throughout the whole of it, and t | |
| 17. n. The mind (seat or organ of thought), (the faculty of) reason. | |
| ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἄρα εἶχεν οὕτως, ἀλλ’ ἐνίους ἐδόκουν καταμανθάνειν τῶν καλῶν τὰς μορφὰς πάνυ μοχθηροὺς ὄντας τὰς ψυχάς. - But after all, it was not so: I thought I discovered that some who were beauti | |
| 18. n. (rare, extended from the meaning ‘soul’) Butterfly. | |
| Γίνονται δ’ αἱ μὲν καλούμεναι ψυχαὶ ἐκ τῶν καμπῶν, αἳ γίνονται ἐπὶ τῶν φύλλων τῶν χλωρῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῆς ῥαφάνου, ἣν καλοῦσί τινες κράμβην. - Those arise — those which one calls butterflie | |
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