Sibyl
Origin
Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα.
Full definition of sibyl
Noun
sibyl
(plural sibyls)- A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
- Shakespeare Othello: Act III, Scene IV:A sibyl, that had number'd in the worldThe sun to course two hundred compasses,In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
- 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland: Epigraph (translated from 61 Petronius' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘Sibyl, what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek."