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Philomèle

/fi.lɔ.mɛl/

proper noun/fi.lɔ.mɛl/

Philomela (the sister of Procne who is raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus and supposedly transformed into a bird by the gods)

Inherited from Middle French Philomele, from Latin Philomela, from Ancient Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomḗlē).