Eurydice
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Eurydice pulchra
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).
Proper noun
Eurydice f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Cirolanidae.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Peracarida - superorder; Isopoda - order; Cymothoida - suborder; Cirolanoidea - superfamily; Cirolanidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Eurydice pulchra - type species; for other species see Eurydice at World Register of Marine Species .
References
Eurydice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Eurydice on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Eurydice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Eurydice at World Register of Marine Species
- Eurydice at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Eurydice at National Center for Biotechnology Information
English
Etymology
From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eurydice
- (Greek mythology) A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
- (Greek mythology) The name of various figures in Greek mythology.
- (astronomy) 75 Eurydike, a main belt asteroid.
- (rare) A female given name
- 2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:
- That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.
Translations
mythology
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eu̯ˈry.di.keː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eu̯ˈri.di.t͡ʃe/,
Proper noun
Eurydicē f sg (genitive Eurydicēs); first declension
- a female given name from Ancient Greek
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Eurydicē |
| genitive | Eurydicēs |
| dative | Eurydicae |
| accusative | Eurydicēn |
| ablative | Eurydicē |
| vocative | Eurydicē |
Descendants
References
- “Eurydice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Eurydice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Proper noun
Eurydice f
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Eurídice.