Noun: phoenix
| Singular | phoenix |
| Plural | phoenix; phoenixes; phoenices |
Sample Sentences
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burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
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Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
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Lord Allerton was that modern phœnix, a young man, without a single objection. [1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 17:]
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Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days. [1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90:]
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The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma. [2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 116:]
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He may not be a phœnix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects. [1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 282:]
Nouns inflected like phoenix
phoenix,
Etymology
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian b-n:nw*w-G31 (boinu, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters. See: Latin Nouns '
phoenīx', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φοῖνιξ'.