Erebus

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Erebus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Erebidae – certain moths.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Noctuoidea – superfamily; Erebidae – family; Erebinae - subfamily; Erebini - tribr

• (genus): Erebus crepuscularis - type species

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• Erebos

From Latin Erebus. Doublet of rajas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹəbəs/

Erebus

1. (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
2. (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

     Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man,
     Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate,
     UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs,
     This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus,
     To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.

3. A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

From Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.rɛ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.re.bus]

Erebus m sg (genitive Erebī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Erebus, whose equivalent in Roman mythology is Scotus.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Erebus

• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Erebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Erebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.