Phebus

English

Proper noun

Phebus

1. Obsolete spelling of Phoebus.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 9:

     As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weft, […]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Febus

Etymology

From Latin Phoebus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖβος (Phoîbos, “[the] Radiant [One]”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːbus/

Proper noun

Phebus

1. (mythology) In Greek mythology, the god governing the sun; Phoebus, Apollo.
2. (astronomy, sometimes uncapitalised) The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.

Synonyms

• (god): Appolyn
• (planet): sonne, sol

Descendants

• English: Phoebus

References

• “phebus, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.