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a minor goddess who taught Greek heroes that beautiful and dangerous are roommates.
means A minor female nature deity in Greek and Roman mythology, imagined as a beautiful young woman embodying a spring, tree, river, or mountain; by extension, a beautiful young woman, or the immature larval stage of certain insects.
from From Greek 'nymphē,' which meant both 'bride' or 'young woman' and these lesser divinities of nature — the two senses sat together because a nymph was forever in the bloom of marriageable youth. It reached English through Latin 'nympha.' The insect sense — the in-between stage before adulthood — borrows the same idea of youth not yet fully grown. The word is also a likely relative of Latin 'nubere,' 'to marry' or 'to take a husband' (the root behind 'nuptial'), all circling the image of the veiled young bride.
- job title
- divine spirit of springs, trees, and mountains
- bug life
- young insects before metamorphosis are also nymphs
- echo's curse
- a nymph cursed to repeat others' final words
- naming rights
- gave us the word nymphaeum, a fountain shrine
- not immortal
- tree nymphs died when their tree fell
calypso — greek mythology: the nymph who detained odysseus on her island ogygia for 7 years in homer's odyssey
daphne — greek mythology: the nymph transformed into a laurel tree while fleeing apollo's pursuit
echo — greek mythology: the nymph cursed to only repeat others' words, fell in love with narcissus