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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/

固有名詞

Niobe

1. (Greek mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
2. (astronomy) 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name

名詞

Niobe (複数形 Niobes)

1. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene xi]:

     There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:

     But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?

アナグラム

• Ebion, boine