Echidna en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /əˈkɪd.nə/
- /ɪˈkɪd.nə/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἔχιδνα (Ékhidna, “Echidna”), from ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”).
Meanings
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(Greek) A female monster who, along with Typhon, mothered the vast majority of the famous monsters and creatures of Greek mythology.
Horrible, hideous, and of hellish race, / Borne of the brooding of Echidna base, / Or other like infernall furies kinde […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Translations (8)
fr Échidna (mythology) · pl Echidna (mythology) · ru Эхидна (mythology) · hu Ekhidna (mythology) · iu ᐃᑭᑦᓇ (mythology) · da Echidna (mythology) · kl Echidna (mythology) · uk Єхи́дна (mythology)