phoenix
意味
- 不死鳥,フェニックス(エジプト神話の霊鳥;500年ごとに自ら焼け死んで生まれかわるという)
例文
Phoenix is the capital of Arizona.
フェニックスはアリゾナの州都である。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian b-n:nw*w-G31 (bnw, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.