Niobe

See also: Niobé and niobé

English

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Niobe

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/

Proper noun

Niobe

1. (Greek mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
2. (Greek mythology) A daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice.
3. (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
4. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Derived terms

• Niobean
• niobium

Translations

daughter of Tantalus

German: Niobe (de) Greek: Νιόβη (el) (Nióvi) Ancient Greek: Νιόβη (Nióbē) Italian: Niobe Latin: Niobē f

asteroid

Noun

Niobe (plural Niobes)

1. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.

   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene xi]:

     There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book III:

     Here poor Mrs Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humoured face were sadly convulsed.

Anagrams

• Ebion, boine

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːobe/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Niobe f (proper noun, genitive Niobe)

1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Related terms

• Niob

Further reading

• Niobe on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Niobe” in Duden online

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Niobe

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Proper noun

Niobe f

1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Anagrams

• beino, beoni

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈni.ɔ.beː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.o.be]

Proper noun

Niobē f sg (genitive Niobēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Niobe

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Niobē
genitive	Niobēs
dative	Niobae
accusative	Niobēn
ablative	Niobē
vocative	Niobē

Related terms

• Niobēus
• Niobīdēs

References

• “Niobe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Niobe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Niobe”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray