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Design > Motif > Zoomorphic > Mythological animals > Phoenix
TERMINE PREFERITO
Phoenix  
DEFINIZIONE
  • n. A borrowing from the Latin "phoenīx". From the Old English "fenix" and Middle English "phenes" "fenyx" "fenyce" "phenex" among others. It is the representation, as a motif, of a a bird resembling an eagle but with sumptuous red and gold plumage which burns itself to ashes on a funeral pyre ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings, only to rise from its ashes with renewed youth to live through another such cycle
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
APPARTIENE AL GRUPPO
IN ALTRE LINGUE
Phénix

francese

Fenice

italiano

Ave fénix

spagnolo

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/839
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phoenix
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