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Enkelados.

Enceladus; one of the giants who fought the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy, traditionally an opponent of Athena and said to have been buried beneath Sicily or Mount Etna

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name/ɛŋˈkeː.la.dɔs/
  1. Enceladus; one of the giants who fought the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy, traditionally an opponent of Athena and said to have been buried beneath Sicily or Mount Etna

    Greek
    Athene beseiret Enkelados under kampen mot gigantene.
  2. a son of Aigyptos and Argyphia, one of the fifty sons of Aigyptos; husband of the Danaid Amymone, who killed him on their wedding night

    Greek
    Amymone ble gift med Enkelados, en av sønnene til Aigyptos.
Where this word comes from

Internationalism, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐγκέλαδος (Enkélados, “Enkelados, a Giant in Greek mythology”). The Ancient Greek name has long been associated with κέλαδος (kélados, “noise, din, clamour”), and has traditionally been interpreted as referring to a noisy or resounding figure, perhaps with ἐν (en, “in, within”) as its first element. The exact prehistoric formation of the name is not entirely certain. The astronomical name Enceladus is the Latinized form of the same mythological name, through Latin Enceladus (“Enkelados”), and was given to a moon of Saturn in honour of the Giant. Parallel learned forms retaining the Greek-like spelling include Danish Enkelados, Swedish Enkelados, Finnish Enkelados, German Enkelados, Polish Enkelados and Czech Enkelados. Compare the Latinized tradition Latin Enceladus, English Enceladus, Dutch Enceladus and French Encelade.

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