Apollo

See also: apollo and Apol·lo

English

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Apollo

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1862 Apollo

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɒləʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑloʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
• Hyphenation: Apol‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Proper noun

Apollo

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     ‘Blue are the hills that are far away,’ is an owercome in the countryside, and while at first on his side it may have been but a young man’s fancy, to her he was like the god Apollo descending from the skies.

2. (astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
3. (astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
4. (NASA, space science) A United States space program, and the vehicles it created, used for human travel to the moon.

   Apollo 11 landed people on the moon for the first time.

5. (with "the") Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
6. A butterfly of species Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
7. A very handsome young man.
8. A male given name.
9. A placename.
10. (West Africa) Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
    • 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 11:

      After that, children in school said you could get Apollo, a form of conjunctivitis, by staring at an eclipse too long.

    • 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 133:

      Her eyes hurt and when her mother looked at her in the morning and worried that she had Apollo because her eyes were so red she did not tell her otherwise.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): Hermes

Derived terms

• (NASA, space): pre-Apollo, post-Apollo
• Apollo Bay

Related terms

• variants: Apollon, Apolo, Apollos

Translations

the son of Zeus

Arabic: أَبُولُّو m (ʔabollū) Armenian: Ապոլոն (hy) (Apolon), Ապոլլոն (hy) (Apollon) Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᏉᎳ (aquola) Chinese: Mandarin: 阿波羅 / 阿波罗 (zh) (Ābōluó) Cantonese: 阿波羅 / 阿波罗 (aa3 bo1 lo4) Coptic: ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱⲛ (apollōn) Czech: Apollón (cs) m Dutch: Apollo (nl) Esperanto: Apolono Finnish: Apollon French: Apollon (fr) m Galician: Apolo (gl) m Georgian: აპოლონი (aṗoloni) German: Apoll (de) m, Apollo (de) m, Apollon (de) m Greek: Απόλλων (el) m (Apóllon), Απόλλωνας (el) m (Apóllonas) Ancient: Ἀπόλλων m (Apóllōn) Hungarian: Apollón Irish: Apalló m Italian: Apollo (it) m Japanese: アポロン (Aporon), アポローン (Aporōn) Khmer: អាប៉ូឡូ (ar po lo) Korean: 아폴론 (Apollon) Latin: Apollō m Marathi: अपोलो m (apolo) Middle English: Appolyn, Phebus Polish: Apollo (pl) m Portuguese: Apolo (pt) m Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón) Spanish: Apolo (es) m Swahili: Apolo Tagalog: Apolo Ukrainian: Аполло́н (uk) m (Apollón) Zulu: u-Apholo

a very handsome young man

Catalan: apol·lo (ca) m French: apollon (fr) m Greek: απόλλων m (apóllon), τεκνό (el) n (teknó) Italian: apollo (it) m Polish: apollo (pl) m Portuguese: apolo m Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón), аполло́н (ru) m (apollón), краса́вец (ru) m (krasávec) Spanish: apolo (es) m

a three-man spacecraft

Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 阿波羅 / 阿波罗 (zh) (Ābōluó) Finnish: Apollo French: Apollo (fr) Hungarian: Apollo (hu) Japanese: アポロ (ja) (Aporo) Korean: 아폴로 (Apollo) Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo) Portuguese: Apollo (pt) f Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón)

a town in Pennsylvania

Finnish: Apollo French: Apollo (fr) Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo)

butterfly

Arabic: هَدَّاب m (haddāb) Catalan: apol·lo (ca) m Finnish: isoapollo French: apollon (fr) m German: Roter Apollo m Hungarian: Apolló-lepke Ido: apolo (io) Marathi: अपोलो n (apolo) Portuguese: apolo m Russian: аполло́н (ru) m (apollón) Spanish: apolo (es) m Turkish: Apollo kelebeği

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Etymology 2

From the object 1862 Apollo.

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

List of Apollo asteroids

Wikipedia

Apollo (plural Apollos)

1. (astronomy) An asteroid possessing an orbit that crosses the orbit of the Earth and an orbital period of over one year, with semimajor axes greater than 1 AU, and perihelion distances less than 1.017 AU.

Translations

asteroid type

Arabic: أَبُولُّو m (ʔabollū) Catalan: Apol·lo (ca) m Finnish: Apollo-asteroidi French: Apollon (fr) m Greek: Απόλλων (el) m (Apóllon) Ancient: Ἀπόλλων m (Apóllōn) Italian: Apollo (it) m Japanese: アポロ (ja) (Aporo) Latin: Apollo m Marathi: अपोलो m (apolo) Portuguese: Apolo (pt) m Russian: Аполло́н (ru) m (Apollón) Spanish: Apolo (es) m

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Latin: (please verify) Apollo m

See also

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• palolo