Oberon.
Oberon; a legendary king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature, best known as the husband of Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Meaning & usage
Oberon; a legendary king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature, best known as the husband of Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oberon er alvenes konge og Titanias ektemann.
Oberon; the outermost of the five major moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and named after the legendary Oberon
Oberon er den ytterste av Uranus' fem store måner.
a town in New South Wales, Australia, in the Central Tablelands, named after Shakespeare's Oberon when it was proclaimed a village in 1863
Oberon ligger vest for Sydney i New South Wales.
a city in North Dakota, United States, in Benson County, named after Shakespeare's Oberon in 1886
Oberon; a general-purpose programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich in the late 1980s, evolved from Modula-2
Oberon ble utviklet som en etterfølger til Modula-2.
Oberon; an operating system developed by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht at ETH Zurich, closely associated with and largely written in the Oberon programming language
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, ultimately from Old French Alberon, based on Middle High German Alberich (“elf king, fairy king”). The Germanic name contains alp (“elf, fairy”) and a second element ultimately from *rīks (“king, ruler”). The name also appears in Old French as Auberon and passed into English as Oberon. The legendary figure is first depicted in the medieval French poem Huon of Bordeaux and later appears prominently as the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The moon of Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and was named after the literary Oberon. The town of Oberon in New South Wales, formerly known as Bullock Flat, was renamed in 1863 after Shakespeare's king of the fairies. Oberon in North Dakota was likewise given its present name in 1886 in reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream. The computing name derives from the moon. Niklaus Wirth chose Oberon as the name of his project at ETH Zurich after Voyager 2's encounter with Uranus and its moons in 1986; the programming language was subsequently given the same name as the system. Parallel international forms include Danish Oberon, Swedish Oberon, German Oberon, French Obéron, Spanish Oberón, Finnish Oberon and English Oberon.
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