Pallene

Pallene

1. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παλλήνη (Pallḗnē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [palˈleː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [palˈlɛː.ne]

Pallēnē f sg (genitive Pallēnēs); first declension

1. A peninsula and town of Chalcidice, where the battle between gods and giants took place

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• Pallēnaeus
• Pallēnēnsis

• Phlegra

• “Pallene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pallene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pallene”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly