# Apollo
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈpɒləʊ/
* (General American) IPA: /əˈpɑloʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒləʊ
* Hyphenation: Apol‧lo

### Etymology 1

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

#### Proper noun

Apollo
* (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.
* (astronomy) The planet Mercury, when observed as a Morning Star.
* (astronomy) Short for 1862 Apollo, an Apollo asteroid.
* (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.
* (with "the") Apollo Theater, a music hall in New York City associated with African-American performers.
* A butterfly of species Parnassius apollo, a large swallowtail with black and red spots on white wings.
* A very handsome young man.
* A male given name.
* A placename.
* (West Africa) Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
** 2005, Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Arris Books, page 11:After that, children in school said you could get Apollo, a form of conjunctivitis, by staring at an eclipse too long.
** 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 133:Her eyes hurt and when her mother looked at her in the morning and worried that she had Apollo because her eyes were so red she did not tell her otherwise.

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “astronomy”): Hermes

##### Derived terms

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

##### Related terms

* variants: Apollon, Apolo, Apollos

##### Translations
#### See also

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

### Etymology 2

From the object 1862 Apollo.

#### Noun

Apollo (plural Apollos)
* (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.

##### Translations

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#### See also

* Apollo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* palolo

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈpɔl.lo/, /aˈpol.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɔllo, -ollo
* Hyphenation: A‧pòl‧lo, A‧pól‧lo

### Proper noun

Apollo m
* (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo

#### Derived terms

* apollo

### References

* ↑ Apollo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Opallo

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Apellō (pre-Classical)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn). Cognate with Faliscan 𐌀𐌐𐌏𐌋𐌏 (apolo).

### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Apollō m (genitive Apollinis or Apollōnis); third declension
* (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

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (two different stems).

#### Synonyms

* Phoebus

#### Derived terms

* Apollināris
* Apollineus

### References

* “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
* “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

## Middle English
### Proper noun

Apollo
* Alternative form of Appolyn

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈpɔl.lɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔllɔ
* Syllabification: A‧pol‧lo
* Homophone: apollo

### Proper noun

Apollo m pers
* (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Apollo (son of Zeus)

#### Declension
### Proper noun

Apollo m pers
* (rare) a male given name, equivalent to English Apollo

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈpɔ.lu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈpɔ.lu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈpɔ.lo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈpɔ.lu/

### Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English Apollo.

#### Proper noun

Apollo f
* Apollo (American three-man spacecraft)
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### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

Apollo m
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Apolo.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).

### Proper noun

Apollo c (genitive Apollos)
* (Greek mythology) Apollo

### See also

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