Apollo

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
• Hyphenation: Apol‧lo

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

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.

• (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): Hermes

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

• variants: Apollon, Apolo, Apollos

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

From the object 1862 Apollo.

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.

• Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• palolo

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔl.lo/, /aˈpol.lo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔllo, -ollo
• Hyphenation: A‧pòl‧lo, A‧pól‧lo

Apollo m

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

• apollo

• Opallo

• Apellō (pre-Classical)

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpol.loː/, [äˈpɔlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpol.lo/, [äˈpɔlːo]

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo
   • c. 25 BCE, Ovid, Heroides, Letter 15: "Sappho Phaoni":

     Sume fidem et pharetram fies manifestus Apollo

     Take up string and quiver and you are Apollo manifest

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

• Phoebus

• Apollināris
• Apollineus

• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Apollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Apollo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Apollo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Apollo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Apollo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Apollo

1. Alternative form of Appolyn

Learned borrowing from Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔl.lɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔllɔ
• Syllabification: A‧pol‧lo
• Homophone: apollo

Apollo m pers

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo (son of Zeus)

Apollo m pers

1. (rare) a male given name, equivalent to English Apollo

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

Apollo f

1. Apollo (American three-man spacecraft)

Apollo m

1. Obsolete spelling of Apolo.

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

Apollo c (genitive Apollos)

1. (Greek mythology) Apollo

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus