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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓ντῐ- (anti-, “against; like; similar to”) + γόνος (gónos, “offspring”) + -η (-ē). May be interpreted as "similar to one's kin"; "worthy of one's ancestor".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /an.ti.ɡó.nɛː/ → /an.tiˈɣo.ni/ → /an.diˈɣo.ni/
Proper noun
Ᾰ̓ντῐγόνη • (Antigónē) f (genitive Ᾰ̓ντῐγόνης); first declension
- a female given name, equivalent to English Antigone
- (Greek mythology) Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta
Inflection
Descendants
References
- Ἀντιγόνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,001