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In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as "Britomart" in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene (probably just because "Brit" seemed to fit well with "Britain", with "mart" from Mars, the god of war) led to a number of appearances by "Britomart" figures in British art and literature. | In the 16th century, the naming of a character identified with English military prowess as "Britomart" in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene (probably just because "Brit" seemed to fit well with "Britain", with "mart" from Mars, the god of war) led to a number of appearances by "Britomart" figures in British art and literature. | ||
==Translations== | |||
az: Britomartida; bg: Бритомартида; br: Britomartis; ca: Britomartis; cs: Britomartis; de: Britomartis; el: Βριτόμαρτις; en: Britomartis; es: Britomartis; fi: Diktynna; fr: Britomartis; hu: Britomartisz; it: Britomarti; ja: ブリトマルティス; lt: Britomartė; mk: Бритомартида; mr: ब्रिटोमर्टिस; nl: Britomartis; no: Britomartis; pl: Britomartis; pt: Britomártis; ru: Бритомартида; sr: Бритомартида; sv: Britomartis; tr: Britomartis; uk: Брітомартіда; zh: 布里托玛耳提斯 | |||
Revision as of 08:46, 1 November 2021
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Brĭtŏmartis: is, f., = Βριτόμαρτις (Cretan, ΒΠΙΤΥ>, rich in blessing, and ΜΑΠΤΙΣ>, maiden, Sol. 11).
I A Cretan nymph, daughter of Jupiter and Carme, inventress of the hunting-net; when pursued by Minos, she cast herself into the sea, Verg. Cir. 285 sq.—
II An epithet of the Cretan Diana: ignea, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. 251: lucos Britomartis agit, id. ib. 303.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Brĭtŏmartis, is, f., nom d’une nymphe de Crète : Claud. Cons. Stil. 3, 251.
Latin > German (Georges)
Britomartis, tis, Vok. ti, f. (Βριτόμαρτις, vom kret. βριτυς = süß, segensreich, u. *μάρτις = μαρνά, Jungfrau; virgo dulcis übersetzt v. Solin. 11, 8, wo Akk. Britomartem), urspr. eine kretische Segensgottheit, als Nymphe der Diana mit den Beinamen Aphaea u. Dictynna (s.u.d. WW. das Nähere), Ps. Verg. cir. 294 sq., spät. mit der kretischen Diana identifiziert, Claud. cons. Stil. 3, 251 u. 303.
