Polyhymnia

Polyhymnia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πολυύμνια (Poluúmnia), Πολύμνια (Polúmnia)

Proper noun

Polyhymnia

1. (Greek mythology) The Muse of sacred music.
2. (astronomy) 33 Polyhymnia, a main belt asteroid.

Synonyms

• (astronomy): 33 Polyhymnia, ㉝

Translations

muse of sacred music

Armenian: Պոլիհիմնիա (hy) (Polihimnia) Danish: Polyhymnia Georgian: პოლიჰიმნია (ṗolihimnia) Greek: Ancient: Πολυύμνια f (Poluúmnia), Πολύμνια f (Polúmnia) Greenlandic: Polyhymnia Hungarian: Polühümnia (hu) Icelandic: Pólýhymnía f Inuktitut: ᐳᓕᐦᐃᒻᓂᐊ (polihimnia) Italian: Polinnia f Portuguese: Polímnia f, Poliímnia f Russian: Полиги́мния (ru) f (Poligímnija)

See also

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Polyhymnia f

1. Obsolete spelling of Polímnia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).