Pasiphaë

[ puh-sif-uh-ee ]

/ pəˈsɪf əˌi /

Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.

Astronomy. a small moon of the planet Jupiter.

Origin of Pasiphaë

First recorded in 1775–85

Phaidra, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, who married Theseus.

The Browning Cyclopdia |Edward Berdoe
Pasiphae (Pasiph′ae) was the reputed mother of the Minotaur killed by Theseus.

1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described |Edward S. Ellis
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.

Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern |Edgar Saltus
On the ceiling were painted the amours of Pasiphae and the bull.

The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci |Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

It is beyond a doubt that in Egypt many women set the same example with goats, as Pasiphae did with her bull.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

Pasiphaë ¹

/ (pəˈsɪfɪiː) /

Greek myth the wife of Minos and mother (by a bull) of the Minotaur

Pasiphaë ²

/ (pəˈsɪfɪiː) /

astronomy a small outer satellite of the planet Jupiter