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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λῠ́σῐς (lúsis, “releasing”) + δῐ́κη (díkē, “justice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lyː.si.dí.kɛː/ → /ly.siˈði.ci/ → /li.siˈði.ci/
Proper noun
Λῡσῐδῐ́κη • (Lūsidíkē) f (genitive Λῡσῐδῐ́κης); first declension
- a female given name: Lysidice
- (Greek mythology) Lysidice, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia
46 CE – 120 CE,
Plutarch,
Theseus 7.1:
- Λυσιδίκη δὲ καὶ Πιτθεὺς ἀδελφοὶ γεγονότες ἐξ Ἱπποδαμείας καὶ Πέλοπος.
- Lusidíkē dè kaì Pittheùs adelphoì gegonótes ex Hippodameías kaì Pélopos.
- Lysidice and Pittheus were siblings, born from Hippodamia and Pelops.
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- Λυσιδίκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Franco Montanari et al. (2015) Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, editors, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
- “Λυσιδίκη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011