Myth & LegendGreek → English
Phoenix
A mythical bird reborn from its own ashes.
The Greek roots
φοῖνιξ
phoînix
purple-red; the phoenix
Literally: “the crimson bird”
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The story of the word
The phoînix burned and rose again from the ashes — an enduring emblem of renewal.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The company rose like a phoenix from bankruptcy.