Orpheus

From Ancient Greek Ὀρφεύς (Orpheús), built from an uncertain root with the -εύς (-eús) suffix. Perhaps root-cognate to Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphan”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹfi.əs/, /ˈɔɹfjuːs/ (compare to Zeus, Odysseus, Morpheus, Proteus)

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Orpheus

2. (Greek mythology) A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades.
3. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.

• Orphic
• Orphism

• Orpheus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Peshour, uphroes, ephorus, upshore, shore up

From English Orpheus, from Ancient Greek.

Orpheus

1. (Greek mythology) Orpheus
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρφεύς (Orpheús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.pʰɛu̯s]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.feu̯s]

Orphe͡us m sg (genitive Orpheī or Orpheos); second declension

1. Orpheus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρφεῖος (Orpheîos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔrˈpʰeː.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [orˈfɛː.us]

Orphēus (feminine Orphēa, neuter Orphēum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Orphean

First/second-declension adjective.

• Orphaicus
• Orphicus

• “Orpheus (dissyl.)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Orpheus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1094.