Cytherea

Translingual

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Etymology

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Proper noun

Cytherea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bombyliidae – certain bee flies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Diptera – order; Brachycera – suborder; Asilomorpha – infraorder; Asiloidea – superfamily; Bombyliidae – family; Cythereinae - subfamily

References

• Cytheria (fly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cytherea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cytherea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), via Latin Cytherea.

Proper noun

Cytherea

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess Aphrodite.
   • 1876, “The Little Birds to Lesbia”, in Punch, volumes 69-70, page 218:

     Has Fashion iced that snowy breast / Where Cytherea's doves might rest, / Till sighs of Songland, sore distrest, / Its feelings may not harrow?

   • 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

     The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

Anagrams

• cheatery, eye chart, eyechart

Latin

Alternative forms

• Cythere (poetic)
• Cythereia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κυθέρεια (Kuthéreia), from Ancient Greek Κύθηρα (Kúthēra, “Kythira”). Equivalent to Cythera +‎ -ea; see Cythereus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ky.tʰɛˈreː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃi.teˈrɛː.a]

Proper noun

Cytherēa f sg (genitive Cytherēae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Venus
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.257:

     parce metu, Cytherea: manent immota tuorum
     fata tibi [...]

     don't fear, Venus: your children's fates remain fixed

References

• “Cythera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press