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phoenix

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See also: Phoenix, Phönix, phœnix, and Phœnix

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  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Alternative forms
    • 1.2 Etymology
    • 1.3 Pronunciation
    • 1.4 Noun
      • 1.4.1 Derived terms
      • 1.4.2 Translations
    • 1.5 Verb
    • 1.6 References
    • 1.7 Further reading
  • 2 Latin
    • 2.1 Alternative forms
    • 2.2 Etymology
    • 2.3 Pronunciation
    • 2.4 Noun
      • 2.4.1 Declension
    • 2.5 Noun
      • 2.5.1 Declension
    • 2.6 Adjective
      • 2.6.1 Declension
      • 2.6.2 Synonyms
    • 2.7 Related terms
    • 2.8 References
  • 3 Romanian
    • 3.1 Etymology
    • 3.2 Noun
      • 3.2.1 Declension

English

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Phoenix (1)
Stone bas-relief with phoenixes (3), Eastern Han dynasty, Tokyo National Museum
Phoenix (Greek coin)

Alternative forms

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  • phenix (archaic)
  • phœnix (obsolete typography)

Etymology

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From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. 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.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: fē'nĭks, IPA(key): /ˈfiːnɪks/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːnɪks

Noun

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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.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
      burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood
  2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
    Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
    • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 17:
      Lord Allerton was that modern phœnix, a young man, without a single objection.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90:
      Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.
  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.
    • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 116:
      The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma.
  5. (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.
    • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 282:
      He may not be a phœnix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects.

Derived terms

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  • like a phoenix from the ashes
  • phoenix palm
  • Texas phoenix palm decline
 

Translations

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mythological bird
  • Afrikaans: feniks (af), feniksvoël (af)
  • Albanian: feniks (sq)
  • Arabic: فِينِيكْس m (fīnīks), فُقْنُس m (fuqnus), عَنْقَاء f (ʕanqāʔ), فِينِيق (fīnīq)
  • Armenian: փյունիկ (hy) (pʻyunik)
  • Bulgarian: фе́никс m (féniks)
  • Catalan: fènix (ca) m
  • Cherokee: ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ (tsulehisanvhi)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 鳳凰/凤凰 (zh) (fènghuáng) (Chinese fenghuang), 不死鳥/不死鸟 (zh) (bùsǐniǎo) (Western)
  • Danish: føniks c
  • Dutch: feniks (nl) m
  • Egyptian:
    bn
    nw w
    G31
    (bnw)
  • Esperanto: fenikso
  • Faroese: føniks m
  • Finnish: feeniks (fi)
  • French: phénix (fr) m
  • Galician: fénix (gl) f
  • Georgian: ფენიქსი (peniksi)
    Old Georgian: ფჳნიქსი (pwiniksi)
  • German: Phönix (de) m
  • Greek: φοίνικας (el) m (foínikas)
    Ancient: φοῖνιξ m (phoînix)
  • Hebrew: עוֹף חוֹל (he) m ('of ḥol)
  • Hindi: अमरपक्षी (amarpakṣī), अमर-पक्षी m (amar-pakṣī), ककनूँ m (kaknū̃), ककनू (hi) m (kaknū), हुमा (hi) m (humā), सीमुर्ग (hi) m (sīmurg)
  • Hungarian: főnix (hu), főnixmadár (hu)
  • Icelandic: fönix m
  • Ido: fenixo (io)
  • Italian: fenice (it) f
  • Japanese: 不死鳥 (ja) (fushichō), 火の鳥 (hi no tori), 鳳凰 (ja) (ほうおう, hōō), フェニックス (ja) (fenikkusu)
  • Korean: 불사조 (bulsajo), 불새 (bulsae)
  • Kumyk: бийдаякъ (biydayaq)
  • Lao: ນົກຟີນິກຊ໌ (nok fī nik sa)
  • Latvian: fēnikss
  • Lithuanian: feniksas m
  • Lü: ᦷᦓᧅᦝᦲᦓᦲᧅ (nokfiiniik)
  • Macedonian: фе́никс m (féniks)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: føniks (no) m
    Nynorsk: føniks m
  • Persian: ققنس (qaqnos), ققنوس (fa) (qoqnus)
  • Polish: feniks (pl) m anim
  • Portuguese:
    Brazilian: fênix (pt) f, fênice (pt) f
    European: fénix (pt) f, fénice f
  • Romanian: fenix (ro) m
  • Russian: фе́никс (ru) m (féniks), жар-пти́ца (ru) f (žar-ptíca)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ainneamhag f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: фе́никс m, жа̑р-пти̏ца f
    Roman: féniks (sh) m, žȃr-ptȉca (sh) f
  • Slovak: fénix (sk) m
  • Slovene: feniks (sl) m
  • Spanish: fénix (es) m, fénice m
  • Swedish: fenix (sv) c
  • Tagalog: peniks
  • Thai: นกฟีนิกซ์
  • Turkish: Anka (tr), Zümrüdüanka (tr), Simurg (tr), tuğrul (tr), konrul
  • Urdu: ققنس (ur) m (qaqnus)
  • Uyghur: سۇمۇرغ (sumurgh)
  • Volapük: fönig (vo)
  • Welsh: ffenics m
  • Yiddish: סימוּרג (Simurg), פֿעניקס (Feniks)
  • Zhuang: funghvuengz
anything reborn after apparently being destroyed
  • Afrikaans: feniks (af)
  • Dutch: feniks (nl) m
  • Greek: φοίνικας (el) m (foínikas)
  • Japanese: 不死鳥 (ja) (ふしちょう, fushichō)
  • Korean: 불사조(不死鳥) (bulsajo)
  • Macedonian: фе́никс m (féniks)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: føniks (no) m
    Nynorsk: føniks m
  • Russian: фе́никс (ru) m (féniks)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: фе́никс m
    Roman: féniks (sh) m
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  • Indonesian: (please verify) phoenix
  • Persian: (please verify) سیمرغ (fa) (simorğ)

Verb

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phoenix (third-person singular simple present phoenixes, present participle phoenixing, simple past and past participle phoenixed)

  1. (Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
    • 2019 December 17, Noel Gladstone, Carrie Fellner, “Small business flattened by 'dodgy' builders in phoenixing epidemic”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎[1]:
      Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been "endemic" for decades.
    • 2020 September 24, Anne Davies, “Phoenixing: how unscrupulous dealers rise debt-free from the ashes of failed companies”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎[2]:
      The ATO defines iIllegal[sic – meaning illegal] phoenixing as when a new company is created to continue the business of a company that has been deliberately liquidated to avoid paying its debts, including taxes, creditors and employee entitlements.

References

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  1. ^ Maria Carmela Betrò, Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt (Abbeville, 1996), 108.

Further reading

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  • phoenix (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • fenghuang on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • phoenix (currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • fenix

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix).

Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpʰoe̯.niːks/, [ˈpʰoe̯niːks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.niks/, [ˈfɛːniks]

Noun

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phoenīx f (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

  1. (mythology) phoenix

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phoenīx phoenīcēs
Genitive phoenīcis phoenīcium
Dative phoenīcī phoenīcibus
Accusative phoenīcem phoenīcēs
phoenīcīs
Ablative phoenīce phoenīcibus
Vocative phoenīx phoenīcēs

Noun

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phoenīx m (genitive phoenīcis); third declension

  1. Phoenician

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phoenīx phoenīcēs
Genitive phoenīcis phoenīcum
Dative phoenīcī phoenīcibus
Accusative phoenīcem phoenīcēs
Ablative phoenīce phoenīcibus
Vocative phoenīx phoenīcēs

Adjective

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phoenīx (genitive phoenīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

  1. Phoenician

Declension

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Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative phoenīx phoenīcēs phoenīca
Genitive phoenīcis phoenīcum
Dative phoenīcī phoenīcibus
Accusative phoenīcem phoenīx phoenīcēs phoenīca
Ablative phoenīce phoenīcibus
Vocative phoenīx phoenīcēs phoenīca

Synonyms

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  • (Phoenician): phoenīcius

Related terms

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(Phoenician):

  • Phoenīcia
  • phoenīcius

References

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(phoenix):

  • “phoenix, īcis, m.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “phoenīx īcis (acc. īca, 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, īcis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Phoenīces, um, m. and sing. Phoenix s.v. Phoenīcē, ēs, f.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin phoenīx.

Noun

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phoenix m (plural phoenicși)

  1. phoenix

Declension

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Declension of phoenix
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) phoenix phoenixul (niște) phoenicși phoenicșii
genitive/dative (unui) phoenix phoenixului (unor) phoenicși phoenicșilor
vocative phoenixule phoenicșilor
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