Definitions for cadmus
ˈkæd məscad·mus

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cadmusnoun

   (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia

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1. Cadmusnoun

   A Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor of Tyre. Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sister Europa after being abducted from Phoenicia by Zeus. Credited with founding Greek city of Thebes and inventing Greek alphabet.

2. Etymology: Via Cadmus, from Κάδμος.

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1. Cadmus

   In Greek mythology, Cadmus (; Greek: Κάδμος, translit. Kádmos) was the legendary Phoenician founder of Boeotian Thebes. He was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Commonly stated to be a prince of Phoenicia, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre, the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa, Cadmus could trace his origins back to Zeus. Originally, he was sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. In early accounts, Cadmus and Europa were instead the children of Phoenix. Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honour. Cadmus' homeland was the subject of significant disagreement among ancient authors. Apollodorus identifies it as Phoenicia, but Tyre, Sidon, and even Thebes in Egypt are referenced in different accounts. His parentage is sometimes modified to suit, e.g. claims of Theban origin name his mother as one of the daughters of Nilus, one of the Potamoi and deity of the Nile river.

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1. cadmus

   Cadmus is a figure from Greek mythology who is credited with introducing the original Alphabet or Phoenician alphabet to the Greeks, who then developed their own alphabet. He was the founder and first king of Thebes, a city in central Greece. Cadmus was also considered the first hero, noted for his physical strength and masculine beauty. He famously sowed dragon teeth that sprouted into fully armed warriors called Spartoi.

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1. Cadmus

   Cadmus or Kadmos, in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician prince, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honor. Cadmus was credited by the ancient Greeks with introducing the original Alphabet or Phoenician alphabet -- phoinikeia grammata, "Phoenician letters"—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet. Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC. Herodotus had seen and described the Cadmean writing in the temple of Apollo at Thebes engraved on certain tripods. He estimated those tripods to date back to the time of Laius the great-grandson of Cadmus. On one of the tripods there was this inscription in Cadmean writing, which, as he attested, resembled Ionian letters: Ἀμφιτρύων μ᾽ ἀνέθηκ᾽ ἐνάρων ἀπὸ Τηλεβοάων.

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1. Cadmus

   (Cad′mus), one of the earliest of the Greek demi-gods. He was the reputed inventor of letters, and his alphabet consisted of sixteen letters. It was Cadmus who slew the Boeotian dragon, and sowed its teeth in the ground, from each of which sprang up an armed man.

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1. CADMUS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cadmus is ranked #38902 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cadmus surname appeared 567 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cadmus.
   
   92% or 522 total occurrences were White.
   4% or 23 total occurrences were Black.
   1.4% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cadmus in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cadmus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cadmus
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cadmus
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=cadmus
6. ^ Mythology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42474/pg42474-images.html#:~:text=cadmus
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html