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Bellerophonic

Bellerophonic adjective: of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.

Adjective

Bellerophonic (comparative more Bellerophonic, superlative most Bellerophonic)

  1. Of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.
    • This event is counterbalanced by Astolfo's encounter with the Amazons, which also constitutes an explicitly Bellerophonic anecdote.1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto, page 97

Forms of Bellerophonic

comparativemore Bellerophonic
superlativemost Bellerophonic

Origin of Bellerophonic

From Bellerophon + -ic.

Questions about Bellerophonic

What does Bellerophonic mean?
Bellerophonic means of or relating to Bellerophon, a hero of Greek mythology, who was killed on the instructions of a letter given to him to deliver by the jealous Proteus.
What part of speech is Bellerophonic?
Bellerophonic is an adjective.

Words near Bellerophonic in the dictionary

  1. Belleoram
  2. beller
  3. belleric myrobalan
  4. Bellerive
  5. bellerophon
  6. Bellerophonic
  7. bellerophons
  8. bellerophontacean
  9. bellerophontid
  10. bellerophontids
  11. bellerophontiform

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