From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ ( phoînix ) , from Egyptian bnw ( boinu , “ grey heron ” ) . 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. [1]
phoenix (plural phoenix or phoenixes or phoenices)
Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star’s disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
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 :
Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.
The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma.
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 :
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.
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phoenix (third-person singular simple present phoenixes, present participle phoenixing, simple past and past participle phoenixed)
2019 December 17, Noel Gladstone; Carrie Fellner, “Small business flattened by ‘dodgy’ builders in phoenixing epidemic”, in The Sydney Morning Herald [1] :
Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been «endemic» for decades.
2020 September 24, Anne Davies, “Phoenixing: how unscrupulous dealers rise debt-free from the ashes of failed companies”, in The Sydney Morning Herald [2] :
The ATO defines iIllegal [sic – meaning illegal] phoenixing as when a new company is created to continue the business of a company that has been deliberately liquidated to avoid paying its debts, including taxes, creditors and employee entitlements.
phoenīx f (genitive phoenīcis); third declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phoenīx | phoenīcēs |
Genitive | phoenīcis | phoenīcium |
Dative | phoenīcī | phoenīcibus |
Accusative | phoenīcem | phoenīcēs phoenīcīs |
Ablative | phoenīce | phoenīcibus |
Vocative | phoenīx | phoenīcēs |
phoenīx m (genitive phoenīcis); third declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Number | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter |
Nominative | phoenīx | phoenīcēs | phoenīca | |
Genitive | phoenīcis | phoenīcum | ||
Dative | phoenīcī | phoenīcibus | ||
Accusative | phoenīcem | phoenīx | phoenīcēs | phoenīca |
Ablative | phoenīce | phoenīcibus | ||
Vocative | phoenīx | phoenīcēs | phoenīca |
phoenix m (plural phoenicși)
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) phoenix | phoenixul | (niște) phoenicși | phoenicșii |
genitive/dative | (unui) phoenix | phoenixului | (unor) phoenicși | phoenicșilor |
vocative | phoenixule | phoenicșilor |
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