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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin Hecuba, from Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hecuba
- (Greek mythology) the wife of King Priam of Troy, the mother of Hector, Paris and the Cassandra
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hecuba f sg (genitive Hecubae); first declension
- (Greek mythology) The wife of Priamus who changed through rage into a dog
- An ugly old woman
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Hecuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Hecuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.