cherubin

cherubin (plural cherubins or cherubin)

1. Obsolete form of cherub.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, OCLC 724111485, [Act IV, scene ii], page 71:

     Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd Cherubin.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 91, column 1:

     This fell whore of thine, / Hath in her more deſtruction then thy Sword, / For all her Cherubin looke.

   • 1611, Robert Abbot, “Of Images”, in The Second Part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholicke. […], London: Impensis Thomæ Adams, OCLC 863615948, page 1164:

     For ſome colour of ſetting vp their idols in Churches to bee worſhiped, they full ſimply alledge the Cherubins that were ſet vp in the temple which Solomon built, which M. [William] Bishop ſaith were the images of Angels, and that they did repreſent the Angels wee will not deny, but of what ſhape they were, no man ſaith Joſephus, can cõiecture or affirme any thing.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     O Daughter of the Roſe, [...] / Whoſe Face is Paradiſe, but fenc'd from Sin: / For God in either Eye has plac'd a Cherubin.

cherubin

1. Obsolete form of cherubim (plural of cherub)

• bruchine, bunchier

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰeˈruː.biːn/, [kʰɛˈruːbiːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /keˈru.bin/, [keˈruːbin]

cherūbīn

1. plural of cherub

From Latin cherūbīm, from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים‎ (kərûḇîm, “cherubim, cherubs”).

cherubin m (oblique plural cherubins, nominative singular cherubins, nominative plural cherubin)

1. cherub

From Late Latin cherūbīm, from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים‎ (kərûḇîm, “cherubim, cherubs”).

• IPA^(key): /keɾuˈβin/

cherubin m (plural cherubines or cherubins)

1. cherub

1. • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49v.

     aduxieron los ſacerdotes el archa del teſtament del criador emetieron la en ſća ſćo ſolas alas delos cherubines

     the priests led the Ark of the Testimony of the Creator and placed it in the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim

   • Idem, f. 54r.

     aſennor dios de los fonſſados de iſrl´ q́ eſtas ſobre los cherubines tu eres dios aſolas e todos los regnos de la tierra en tu mano

     Oh, Lord God of the hosts of Israel, that is above the cherubim, You alone are God and all the kingdoms of Earth are in your hand

• seraphin (“seraph”)

• Spanish: querubín

• cherub

Borrowed from Late Latin cherūbīm, from Ancient Greek χερούβ (kheroúb), from Hebrew כְּרוּבִים‎ (kərûḇîm).

• IPA^(key): /xɛˈru.bin/

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• Rhymes: -ubin
• Syllabification: che‧ru‧bin

cherubin m pers (diminutive cherubinek)

1. cherub (high-ranking angel)

cherubin m anim

1. (figuratively, literary) cherub (person seen as being particularly angelic or innocent)

   Synonym: efeb

• cherubin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cherubin in Polish dictionaries at PWN