Erebus

Erebus

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Erebidae – certain moths.

• Erebos

From Latin Erebus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹəbəs/

Erebus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
2. (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene i:

     Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
     Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
     UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
     This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
     To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.

3. A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

• Translingual: Erebus

From Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛrɛbʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.re.bus/, [ˈɛːrebus]

Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Erebus

• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Erebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette