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单词 philomene
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Philomenen.

Forms: late Middle English Philomene, late Middle English–1500s Phylomene, 1500s Philumene; Scottish pre-1700 Phelomene, pre-1700 Philomeen, pre-1700 Philomeine, pre-1700 Philomeyn, pre-1700 Philomeyne.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin philomena, philomēla.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin philomena (11th or 12th cent.; also Philomena , as the name of the heroine of the myth), variant of classical Latin philomēla Philomela n. Compare Spanish filomena (1240–50 or earlier in this sense), Italian Filomena (1374 or earlier in this sense), both poetic and literary.Attested earlier as the name of the heroine of the Greek myth (see Philomela n.):a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5945 The ferst into a nyhtingale Was schape, and that was Philomene, Which in the wynter is noght sene.c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2274 Tereus..gan..preye..That Philomene [v.rr. Philomen, Philomenes], his wyves syster, myghte On Progne his wyf but ones han a syghte.
poetic and literary. Obsolete.
= Philomel n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Luscinia > luscinia megarhynchos (nightingale)
nightgaleeOE
nightingalec1275
nightbirdc1450
Philomenec1500
Philomela1563
Philomel1579
rossignol?1590
Daulian bird1894
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cx (MED) Unlike the mone is to the sonne schene..Unlike the cukkow to the phylomene.
a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 2578, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 82 The sweit sang of þis philomeyne.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iiii To vnderstande, the notes of Phylomene, (For so she hight, whom thou calst Nightingale).
1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda 475 But I will wake and sorrow all the night With Philumene, my fortune to deplore.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. D2 The Maveis and the Philomeen, The Stirling whissilles lowd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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