Lilith

nom propre

1. 1

   A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.

2. 2

   The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.

   Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold.

3. 3

   The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).

4. 4

   A female given name from Hebrew.