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- Ancient Greek · derived fromΣίσυφος
- English todaySisyphus
From Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).
Words from the same roots
Ancient GreekΣίσυφος all →
sisyphean
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades. Full definition →
From Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).
Ancient GreekΣίσυφος all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.