pegasus

plural pegasuses · plural pegasi

1. alternativeAlternative form of Pegasus.

alternative Pegasos · alternative pegasus

1. Greekhuman sciencesA winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
   1. GreekastronomyA constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

plural Pegasuses · plural Pegasi · alternative Pegasos · alternative pegasus

1. alsooccasionally proscribedfantasyAny winged horse; a pterippus.
   1. alsohistoricaloccasionally proscribedfantasyA coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.

      Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.

      2007 February 15, R. J. A. Talbert, Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily: 344-317 B.C., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 167

2. archaicPoetic inspiration; muse.