Ἑκάτη
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Ἑκᾰ́τᾱ (Hekátā)
Etymology
Possibly the feminine equivalent of Ἑκατός (Hekatós) or ἑκάεργος (hekáergos), an obscure epithet of Apollo, derived from ἑκάς (hekás, “far away”), variously interpreted as "one who works/operates from afar," "one who drives off,"[1] "the far reaching one" or "the far-darter."[2] Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis, who was very closely associated (and sometimes conflated) with Hekate. Or possibly from an Anatolian language.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /he.ká.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)eˈka.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈka.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈka.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈka.ti/
Proper noun
Ἑκᾰ́τη • (Hekátē) f (genitive Ἑκᾰ́της); first declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ἑκᾰτεῖον (Hekateîon)
- Ἑκᾰταῖος (Hekataîos)
- Ἑκᾰ́της δεῖπνον (Hekátēs deîpnon, “Hekate's dinner”)
- Ἑκᾰταῖᾰ κᾰτεσθίειν (Hekataîa katesthíein, “rapscallion”)
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “Ἑκάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑκάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἑκάτη 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 1,012
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN