In the
English-language pantheon of mythical equines, a horse with a single horn is a unicorn (from the Latin for ‘one horn’), and a horse with wings
is referred to as Pegasus, from the name of the winged horse of Greek mythology
which sprang from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut off her head.
Unicorns
and Pegasi have in recent decades been joined in popular culture by another type
of magical horse; several terms for a winged unicorn (or horned pegasus) have
been suggested, but none of them have been entered into Oxford Dictionaries, because
they do not yet meet the criteria for inclusion.
A winged
unicorn is a fictional equine with the wings of a pegasus and the horn of a
unicorn; in some literature and media is it also referred to as an alicorn.
Alicorn is an English
rendering of the Italian word alicorno meaning
‘unicorn’ (liocorno and unicorno are the usual
modern Italian words) or ‘unicorn’s horn’. Although alicorno was a synonym of unicorn in Italian, its original use
in English, in 1678, was with reference to an entirely different animal,
resembling a bull with wavy horns.
The
connection between the word alicorn and a winged
unicorn cropped up from time to time in the intervening decades, but the
breakout moment didn’t come until 2012, when the word was introduced in an
episode of the cartoon series 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'. Alicorn came to be the
standard term used in the series to refer to a special category of magical pony
princesses sporting both a horn and wings.
The
alicorn of a unicorn has symbolic association with virginity, innocence, God’s
Word and divine power. In magic is was considered protection against poison and
evil.
The
Personal Meaning Behind My 1st Tattoo (2010)
- It a baby to the mamma to represent
the relationship with my mom
- It is in the same spot on my left
ankle as my mom’s piece to be an extension of hers
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