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Date "PELOPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pelops Son of Tantalos, cut to pieces and served as food to the gods. The More'a was called Peloponue sos or the "island of Pelops," from this mythical king. The ivory shoulder of the sons of Pelops. The distinguishing or distinctive mark of anyone. The tale is that Demeter ate the shoulder of Pelops when it was served up by Tantalos, and when the gods put the body back into the cauldron to restore it to life, he came forth lacking a shoulder. Demeter supplied an ivory shoulder, and all his descendants carried this mark in their bodies. (See Pythagoras.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tantalus, Pelops' father, cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods. The gods were aware of the trickery and brought Pelops back to life with a single piece of his shoulder, which had been eaten by Dionysus, replaced with ivory. After his resurrection, Pelops was beautiful; Poseidon fell in love with him and gave him a gift of a winged chariot.
Pelops wanted to marry Hippodamia. King Oenamaus of Pisa or Olympia, her father, had pursued thirteen suitors of Hippodamia and killed them all after beating them in a chariot race. He did this because he loved her himself or, alternatively, because a prophecy claimed he would be killed by her son. Pelops (or alternatively, Hippodamia herself) convinced Myrtilus (by promising him half of Oenomaus kingdom), Oenomaus' charioteer to remove the linchpins attacking the wheels to the chariot. Oenomaus died. Pelops then killed Myrtilus because he didn't want to share the credit for winning the chariot race, or because Myrtilus had attemped to rape Hippodamia. As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Pelops' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.
Pelops soon controlled the entire Peloponnesus and then took Oenomaus' kingdom in Pisa.
During the Trojan War, Pelops' bones were brought to Troy by the Greeks because an oracle claimed they would be able to win by doing so.
Ovid. Metamorphoses VI, 403-11; Apollodorus. Epitome II, 3-9; V, 10.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pelops."
Crosswords: PELOPS |
| Specialty definitions using "PELOPS": Golden Thigh. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "PELOPS": Peloponnesian. (references) |
| "PELOPS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PELOPS" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pelops | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "PELOPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | Î Îλοπασ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elopspay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: peplos. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: lopes, pepos, plops, poles, popes, slope. | |
-2 letters: epos, lope, lops, lose, oles, opes, pepo, peps, peso, plop, pole, pols, pope, pops, pose, sloe, slop, sole. | |
-3 letters: els, lop, oes, ole, ope, ops, ose, pep, pes, pol, pop, sel, sol, sop. | |
-4 letters: el, es, lo, oe, op, os, pe, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: hopples, loppers, peoples, popples, propels, slopped, stopple, topples. | |
+2 letters: estoppel, floppers, floppies, loppiest, papulose, peoplers, peploses, pleopods, popeless, popsicle, prolapse, sapropel, sloppier, stoppled, stopples. | |
+3 letters: appellors, blowpipes, dispeople, episcopal, estoppels, floppiest, jaloppies, oilpapers, oppilates, opposable, panoplies, papillose, peepholes, polyphase, polypides, polypneas, polypores, polypuses, polytypes, popsicles, populaces, populates, prolapsed, prolapses, prolepses, prolepsis, propenols, purposely, repeoples, sapropels, sloppiest, stoppable, unpeoples. | |
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