Delphinus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Delphinus
< Latin delphīnus dolphin < Greek delphī́s dolphin, stem delphīn-
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The Delphinus constellation is named for a Greek legend about a musician who played their instrument to summon a dolphin that saved them from pirates.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
The array was able to produce the first pictures of a nova at the early fireball stage from one that erupted in the Delphinus constellation last year, from Earth’s point of view.
From Forbes ● Oct. 27, 2014
Focusing on the ratings of a deal called Delphinus, the unit in 2011 sent S.&P. a so-called Wells notice warning that an enforcement action was possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2013
The SEC declined to comment about the status of the Delphinus investigation, or any other related investigations it may be working on.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2013
Naturalists understand by this word numerous species of small cetaceous animals of the genus Delphinus, found in nearly all seas.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Delphini Diggory—there isn’t a hole she couldn’t dig herself into.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
This was the same youth who told us he had been reading “Lucius Florus;” Florus Delphini was the phrase.
From Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson by Morley, Henry
The Cabinet Council must be regarded as a text-book of State-craft, intended in usum Delphini.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
They were employed with others to comment upon and edit a series of the ancient authors, for the Dauphin, which form the collection "Ad usum Delphini."
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Danet, Ad usum Delphini, Paris, 1700, 4to, 2 vols.; and frequently: Quicherat, 9th ed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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