English Dictionary

Hecatoncheires

名詞

ギリシャ語 複数形 複数形のみ

(Greek mythology) Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.

日本語の意味

ギリシャ神話に登場する巨大で強力な三体の巨人。各々が50の頭と100本の腕を持ち、ウラノスとガイアの子として生まれ、ゼウスによって解放され、タイタン戦争（タイタノマキア）においてオリンポスの神々の戦いを助けた存在。

The archaeologist's lecture on the Hecatoncheires captured the audience's imagination with tales of their fifty heads and a hundred arms.

考古学者の講義は、五十の頭と百本の腕を持つ百腕の巨人に関する話で、聴衆の想像力をかき立てた。

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.

The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes).