Semiramis

Ancient Greek Σεμῑ́ραμις (Semī́ramis)

Semiramis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bombyliidae – certain bee flies.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Holometabola - superorder; Diptera - order; Brachycera - suborder; Asilomorpha - infraorder; Asiloidea - superfamily; Bombyliidae - family

• (genus): Semiramis punctipennis - species

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• Category:Bombyliidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Semiramis at the Catalogue of Life 
• Semiramis at Encyclopedia of Life

From Latin Semīramis, from Ancient Greek Σεμῑ́ραμις (Semī́ramis), ultimately Akkadian in origin.

Semiramis

1. A legendary queen of Assyria.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 12:

     The hair fell in curls over the face, and was gathered up behind in a knot, from which hung some rich ringlets. These, however, did not conceal the haughty turn of the head, erect like that of a young Semiramis.

From Ancient Greek Σεμῑ́ραμις (Semī́ramis).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seˈmiː.ra.mis/, [s̠ɛˈmiːrämɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ra.mis/, [seˈmiːrämis]

Semīramis f sg (genitive Semīramidis); third declension

1. Semiramis

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• English: Semiramis
• Italian: Semiramide

• “Semiramis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press