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fénix

  • noun [ masculine ]
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fénix, es; m.
the fabulous bird phœnix = φoινιξ
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  • Fénix, swá hátte án fugel on Arabiscre þeóde, se leofaþ fíf hund geára, and æfter deáþe eft aríst ge-edcucod, and se fugel getácnaþ úrne æríst on ðam endenéhstan dæge

    phœnix, so a bird in Arabia is called, which lives five hundred years, and after death rises again re-quickened, and the bird betokens our resurrection at the last day,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 64
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    • Som. 13, 56-58.
  • Se fugel se is fénix háten

    the bird which is called phœnix,

    • Exon. 57 a
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    • Th. 203, 19
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    • Ph. 86.
  • Fénix byrneþ

    phœnix burns,

    • 59 a
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    • Th. 213, 2
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    • Ph. 218: 60 b
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    • Th. 221, 26
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    • Ph. 340.
a genus of palms, the date tree or date palm; phœnix dactylĭfĕra
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  • Ðǽr he heánne beám wunaþ ðone hátaþ men fénix, of ðæs fugles noman

    there it inhabits a lofty tree, which men call phœnix, from the bird's name,

    • Exon. 58 a
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    • Th. 209, 21
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    • Ph. 174.
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  • fénix, n.