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Main Entry: phoe=B7nix
Pronunciation: 'fE-niks
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English fenix, from Old English, from Latin phoenix, from
Greek phoinix
Date: before 12th century
: a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned
itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another
period; also : a person or thing likened to the phoenix
- phoe=B7nix=B7like  /-"lIk/ adjective

Madelina

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Skinner [mailto:Jack.Skinner at thrifty.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:10 PM
To: 'ansteorra at ansteorra.org'
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] Latin help


To my knowledge, Phoenix is the proper Latin word.  There is a Medieval
Latin spelling which is Fenix with a ^ over the e.  Kieran

-----Original Message-----
From: cchipman at nomadics.com [mailto:cchipman at nomadics.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:40 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Ansteorra] Latin help


Does anyone know the latin word for firebird or phoenix?

TIA,
Centurion Jean Paul de Sens


Carl Chipman
Nomadics, Inc.
cchipman at nomadics.com
http://www.nomadics.com



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