pegasus

From the mythical Pegasus.

pegasus (plural pegasuses or pegasi)

1. A winged horse (imaginary or mythical, sometimes figurative).

• pterippus

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

pegasus

1. a pegasus; a winged horse

Horse from Red Horse Beer, wings from Gold Eagle Beer and St. Michael the Archangel standing in for Bellerophon or Perseus.

pegasus

1. a cocktail using Red Horse Beer and Gold Eagle Beer and Ginebra San Miguel

From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

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

pēgasus m (genitive pēgasī); second declension

1. pegasus (a winged horse or a bird with a horse's head, suspected to live in Africa)
   • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis libri III 3:

     Sunt mirae aves cornutae tragopanes et equinis auribus pegasi.

     [In Africa] there are wonderful birds: horned tragopans and pegasi with horse's ears.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.72:

     Aethiopia generat […] pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos pegasos vocant.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       Æthiopia produces […] horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called pegasi.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.26:

     Pegasos equino capite volucres et grypas aurita aduncitate rostri fabulosos reor, illos in Scythia, hos in Aethiopia.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley

       I look upon the birds as fabulous which are called "pegasi," and are said to have a horse's head; as also the griffons, with long ears and a hooked beak. The former are said to be natives of Scythia, the latter of Æthiopia.

   • c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi :

     Illius caeli ales est pegasus, sed haec ales equinum nihil praeter aures habet.

     In that climate lives the bird pegasus, but this winged creature has nothing equine except ears.

Second-declension noun.