# Pegasus
## Translingual
### Etymology

From Latin Pēgasus (“mythical white winged stallion of Medusa and Poseidon”).

### Proper noun

Pegasus m
* A taxonomic genus within the family Pegasidae – small fish with pectoral fins and body covered with hard, bony plates, from the East Indies and China.

#### Hypernyms

* (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Syngnathiformes - order; Pegasidae - family

#### Hyponyms

* (genus): Pegasus volitans - type species; Pegasus lancifer, Pegasus laternarius, Pegasus tetrabelos - other species

#### Derived terms

* Eurypegasus

### References

* Pegasus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Pegasus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Pegasus (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## English
### Alternative forms

* Pegasos
* pegasus

### Etymology

From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: pĕɡʹ-ə-səs, IPA: /ˈpɛɡ.ə.səs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Proper noun

Pegasus
* (Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
** (astronomy) A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

#### Meronyms

* (constellation): Algenib, Alkarab, Biham, Enif, Helvetios, Homam, Markab, Matar, Sadalbari, Salm, Scheat

#### Derived terms

* (constellation): Peg (abbreviated form), Pegasi (Latin genitive form)

#### Translations
### Noun

Pegasus (plural Pegasuses or Pegasi)
* (originally Greek mythology, fantasy, occasionally proscribed) Any winged horse; pterippus.
** (historical) A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
*** 2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167:Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.
* (archaic) Poetic inspiration, muse.

#### Translations
### See also

* Bellerophon
* Enif

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Pegasus m
* (Greek mythology) Pegasus
* (astronomy) Pegasus

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɡɑsus/, [ˈpe̞ɡɑ̝s̠us̠]
* Rhymes: -eɡɑsus
* Syllabification: Pe‧ga‧sus

### Proper noun

Pegasus
* (astronomy) The constellation Pegasus.

#### Declension

Possessive forms of Pegasus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) :

### See also

* Pegasos

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpeː.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpeːɡäs̠ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpe.ɡa.sus/, [ˈpɛːɡäs̬us]

### Proper noun

Pēgasus m sg (genitive Pēgasī); second declension
* (Greek mythology) Pegasus
* A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
** (Lucius?) Plotius Pegasus (a Roman senator and jurisconsult active under the Flavian dynasty)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
| Nominative | Pēgasus |
| Genitive | Pēgasī |
| Dative | Pēgasō |
| Accusative | Pēgasum |
| Ablative | Pēgasō |
| Vocative | Pēgase |

#### Derived terms

* Pēgasēius
* Pēgasiānus

### References

* “Pegasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Pegasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### Further reading

* Pegasus (mythologia) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{la}$
* Pegasus (constellatio) on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{la}$