Adonis

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Adonis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – pheasant's eye or blood drops.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots – clades; Ranunculales – order; Ranunculaceae – family; Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Adonideae - tribe

• (genus): Adonis annua (autumn pheasant’s eye) - type species; Adonis aestivalis, Adonis aleppica, Adonis amurensis, Adonis bienertii, Adonis bobroviana, Adonis brevistyla, Adonis chrysocyathus, Adonis coerulea, Adonis cyllenea, Adonis davidii, Adonis dentata, Adonis distorta, Adonis eriocalycina, Adonis flammea, Adonis flammula, Adonis globosa, Adonis integra, Adonis leiosepala, Adonis microcarpa, Adonis mongolica, Adonis multiflora, Adonis nepalensis, Adonis palaestina, Adonis parviflora, Adonis persica, Adonis pyrenaica, Adonis ramosa, Adonis scrobiculata, Adonis shikokuensis, Adonis sibirica, Adonis sibthorpii, Adonis sutchuenensis, Adonis tianschanica, Adonis turkestanica, Adonis vernalis, Adonis villosa, Adonis wolgensis (other species)

• Adonis (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Adonis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Adonis (Ranunculaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Adonis at Tropicos
• Adonis at Plants of the World Online

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈdoʊ.nɪs/, /əˈdɒn.ɪs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdɑn.ɪs/, /əˈdoʊ.nɪs/

Adonis

1. (Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
   • 1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, S. George:

     The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

   • 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun,

     A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.

   • 1921, Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance, Chapter X: The Secret of the Grail (1) - The Mysteries,

     As Sir J. G. Frazer has before now pointed out, there are parallel and over-lapping forms of this cult, the name of the god, and certain details of the ritual, may differ in different countries, but whether he hails from Babylon, Phrygia, or Phoenicia, whether he be called Tammuz, Attis, or Adonis, the main lines of the story are fixed, and invariable. Always he is young and beautiful, always the beloved of a great goddess; always he is the victim of a tragic and untimely death, a death which entails bitter loss and misfortune upon a mourning world, and which, for the salvation of that world, is followed by a resurrection.

2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
3. A surname.
4. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.

• Adonise, adonise, Adonize, adonize
• autumn Adonis
• (given name): (diminutive) Donny, Donnie, Donney, Donni

• Adonai

Adonis (plural Adonises or Adonides)

1. A beautiful man.

• danios, sodina, sodian, doinas

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

• IPA^(key): /aːˈdoː.nɪs/

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• Hyphenation: Ado‧nis

Adonis m

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)

Adonis m (plural Adonissen, diminutive Adonisje n)

1. alternative letter-case form of adonis

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈdoː.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd̪ɔː.nis]

Adōnis m sg (genitive Adōnidis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis
2. a river in Phoenicia, now the Abraham River

Third-declension noun, singular only.

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνῐς (Ádōnĭs).

• IPA^(key): /aˈdɔ.ɲis/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɲis
• Syllabification: A‧do‧nis
• Homophone: adonis

Adonis m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)

• Adonis in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Adonis in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): /âdonis/
• Hyphenation: A‧do‧nis

Ȁdonis m anim (Cyrillic spelling А̏донис)

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis

• “Adonis”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Spanish Adonis, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdonis/ [ʔɐˈd̪oː.n̪ɪs]
• Rhymes: -onis
• Syllabification: A‧do‧nis
• Homophone: adonis

Adonis (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜓᜈᜒᜐ᜔) (Greek mythology)

1. Adonis (beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite)

• “Adonis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018