Cepheus

From Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːfi.əs/, /ˈsiːfjuːs/

Cepheus

1. (Greek mythology) Husband of Cassiopeia, king of Eritrea, father of Andromeda. There may be two mythical kings by this name.
2. (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, located between Draco and Cassiopeia and representing the king Cepheus from Greek myth. It contains the star Alderamin.

• Cephei
• cepheid
• Cepheid variable

Borrowed from Latin Cēpheus, from Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.fœy̯s/

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• Hyphenation: Ce‧pheus

Cepheus m

1. (Greek mythology) Cepheus
2. (astronomy) Cepheus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κηφεύς (Kēpheús).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.pʰeu̯s/, [ˈkeːpʰɛu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.feu̯s/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːfeu̯s]

Cēphe͡us m sg (genitive Cēpheī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Cepheus (a king of Ethiopia, husband of Cassiopeia, father of Andromeda)
2. (astronomy) the constellation Cepheus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Cēphēis (“daughter of Cepheus”, noun)
• Cēphēius (“of Cepheus”, adjective)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κηφεῖος (Kēpheîos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /keːˈpʰeː.us/, [keːˈpʰeːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈfe.us/, [t͡ʃeˈfɛːus]

Cēphēus (feminine Cēphēa, neuter Cēphēum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of Cepheus, Ethiopian

First/second-declension adjective.

• “Cepheus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press