Web 2.0 → Homepage → concepts → ninfa

nymph -

Este índice contiene definiciones y enlaces a otras páginas que desarrollan sobre ninfa

ninfa

Ninfa
∈ Ninfas	english Nymph deutch Nymphe french Nymphe italian Ninfa portuguese Ninfa latin Nympha

Enlaces patrocinados

Español

ninfa

English

nymph

nymph ymph (ni^mf), n. [L. nympha nymph, bride, young woman, Gr. ny`mfh: cf. F. nymphe. Cf. {Nuptial}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Class. Myth.) A goddess of the mountains, forests,
meadows, or waters.
[1913 Webster]

Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o er the head of your loved Lycidas?
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. [1913 Webster]

Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Zo"ol.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis. [1913 Webster]

4. (Zo"ol.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock
butterfly, etc.; -- called also {naiad}.
[1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English