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Middle English < Latin Myrmidones (plural) < Greek Myrmidónes
Middle English < Latin Myrmidones (plural) < Greek Myrmidónes
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Myrmidon
is always a great word to know.
So is Styx. Does it mean:
| one of a race of female warriors said to dwell near the Black Sea |
| a river in the underworld, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths |
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myrmidon
c.1400, from L. Myrmidones (pl.), from Gk. Myrmidones, Thessalian tribe led by Achilles to the Trojan War, fabled to have been ants changed into men, from Gk. myrmex "ant." Transferred sense of "faithful follower" is from 1610.
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