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Origin of the name PHOEBUS.
Etymology of the
name PHOEBUS.
Meaning of the baby name PHOEBUS.
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PHOEBUS. Latin
form of Greek Phoibos
(q.v.), meaning "the light of life" or "pure
radiance." Usage: America, Italy.
Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, M.D. (d. 1940), was a
Russian-American biochemist. (Wiki)
Phoebus and
Phoebe had many worshippers in Greece, and gradually grew to be regarded
as the deities of the sun and moon, owing probably to the original
meaning of their names = to shine, coming from the Greek word φάω
(phao);
and Phoebe is probably of greater antiquity than Artemis.
. . . .
... Phoebus has never been used in England, though in the Pyrenees it
was, during the Middle Ages, given to some of the Counts of Foix, and
Victor Hugo has so named one of his characters (Captain Phoebus) in his
celebrated novel Notre Dame de Paris. (Girls'
Christian Names, Swan, 1905).
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