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Tyro, a Phoenician queen as the wife of King Agenor who named after her the newly built city of Tyre. She became the mother of his sons: Cadmus, Phoenix, Syros, Cilix, and, a daughter, Europa. [1] [2] In other accounts, the spouse of Agenor was variously given as Telephassa, [3] Argiope, [4] Antiope, [5] and Damno. [6]
Tyro's father Salmoneus was the brother of Athamas and Sisyphus. She was married to her uncle Cretheus, [4] King of Iolcus but Tyro loved the river god Enipeus who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union were born Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.
The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap
Tyro Payments, an Australian bank specialising in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Tyro Stakes, an American Thoroughbred horse race; Tyro (Final Fantasy), the main character in Final Fantasy Record Keeper; Theodore Tyro, a Christian saint
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
According to Egon Kühebacher [], the name Tyrol derives from a root word meaning terrain (i.e. area, ground or soil; compare Latin: terra and Old Irish: tir); first from the village of Tirol, and its castle; from which the County of Tyrol grew. [5]
[a] The same name is variously anglicized as Theodore Tiron, [6] Tiro, [1] [7] Tyron, [8] Tyro, [1] [9] and Teron. [10] Nilles argued that this epithet was a later mistake and that, rather than being a recruit, Theodore's name had originally referenced his service in the Cohors Tyronum .) [ 1 ] [ 11 ] The saint is also distinguished as Theodore ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...