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In Greek and Roman mythology, Nephele (/ ˈ n ɛ f ə l iː /; Ancient Greek: Νεφέλη, romanized: Nephélē, lit. 'cloud, mass of clouds'; [1] corresponding to Latin nebula) is the name of two homonymic cloud nymphs, sometimes confused with each other, who figures respectively in the stories of Ixion and in the story of Phrixus and Helle.
Around 340 BC, Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote Meteorologica, a work which represented the sum of knowledge of the time about natural science, including weather and climate. For the first time, precipitation and the clouds from which precipitation fell were called meteors, which originate from the Greek word meteoros, meaning 'high in the sky'.
The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι, Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes.A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and was not as well received as the author had hoped, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year.
In Greek, this came to mean a divine, bright disk. Nimbus means "a cloud" in Latin, and is found as "a divine cloud" in 1616, whereas as "a bright or golden disk surrounding the head" it does not appear until 1727.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples uber-fruitful, udder Latin: ūber, uberare: exuberance, exuberant, exuberate, uberous, uberty
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Baldr, god thought to be associated with light and/or day; is known by many other names, all of which have cognates in other Germanic languages, suggesting he may have been a pan-Germanic deity