phoenix

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. 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.
2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
3. (Chinese) 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.
5. (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.
6. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Phoenix (“A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.”).

Verb

To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability

Concepts

phénix

cidarie du prunier

Synonymes

phenix

genus Phoenix

paragon

Phoenix

phoenix moth

Traductions

feniks

fénix

fenice

Phönix

fénix

fênix

φοίνικας

fènix

عنقاء

anka

dunkelbrauner Haarbüschelspanner

Schlehdornspanner

φοίνικα

brauner Haarbüschelspanner

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈfiːnɪks/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.