Pegasus

Latin Pegasus (“mythical white winged stallion of Medusa and Poseidon”)

Pegasus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pegasidae – small fish with pectoral fins and body covered with hard, bony plates, from the East Indies and China.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Syngnathiformes - order; Pegasidae - family

• (genus): Pegasus volitans - type species; Pegasus lancifer, Pegasus laternarius, Pegasus tetrabelos - other species

• Eurypegasus

• Pegasus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pegasus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pegasus (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix.

• enPR: pĕɡʹ-ə-səs, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/

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Pegasus

1. (Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
2. (astronomy) A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

• (constellation): Algenib, Alkarab, Biham, Enif, Helvetios, Homam, Markab, Matar, Sadalbari, Salm, Scheat

• (constellation): Peg (abbreviated form), Pegasi (Latin genitive form)

Pegasus (plural Pegasi)

1. (historical) A coin of ancient Corinth, with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
   • 2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:

     Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.

• Bellerophon
• Enif

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Pegasus m

1. (Greek mythology) Pegasus
2. (astronomy) Pegasus

From Latin Pegasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɡɑsus/, [ˈpe̞ɡɑ̝s̠us̠]
• Rhymes: -eɡɑsus
• Syllabification^(key): Pe‧ga‧sus

Pegasus

1. (astronomy) The constellation Pegasus.

• Pegasos

From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]

Pēgasus m sg (genitive Pēgasī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Pegasus
2. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. (Lucius?) Plotius Pegasus (a Roman senator and jurisconsult active under the Flavian dynasty)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Pēgasēius
• Pēgasiānus

• “Pegasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pegasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Pegasus (mythologia) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Pegasus (constellatio) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la