Mimas

From Ancient Greek Μίμᾱς (Mímās), earlier Μίμανς (Mímans).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪməs/

Mimas

1. (Greek mythology) A son of Gaia; one of the Gigantes.
2. (astronomy) The innermost of Saturn's classical satellites, marked by a giant impact crater (Herschel) on its surface.
   • 2021, Kevin Hand, Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 43:

     Evidence suggests, for example, that Saturn's moon Mimas may have an ocean.

• (moon): Saturn I

• Mimantean, Mimantian

• IAMMS, Imams, Sammi, imams, maims, miasm

From Ancient Greek Μίμας (Mímas).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.maːs/, [ˈmɪmäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mas/, [ˈmiːmäs]

Mimās m sg (genitive Mimāntis); third declension

1. A mountain of Ionia
2. (Greek mythology) A mythological giant defeated by Zeus

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Mimas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Mimas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Mimas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.