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Prometheus

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//pɹəˈmiːθi.əs//
  • United States//pɹoʊˈmiθi.əs//

A male given name from Ancient Greek.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Ancient Greek.

  2. 2

    The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.

  3. 3

    A moon of the planet Saturn.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús), from πρό (pró, “before”) + μανθάνω (manthánō, “to think”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).