Proserpina

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English

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(26) Proserpina astronomical symbol, a pomegranate.

Etymology

From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

Proper noun

Proserpina

  1. (Roman mythology) The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.
  2. (astronomy) 26 Proserpina, the asteroid.
  3. (astrology) A fictitious planet beyond Pluto.

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Etymology

From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

Proper noun

Proserpina f

  1. (Roman mythology) Proserpina or Proserpine

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Etymology

From a form of Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

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Proper noun

Prōserpina or Proserpina f sg (genitive Prōserpinae or Proserpinae); first declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Proserpina or Proserpine, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; wife of Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily, and carried her to Hades to be queen of the Underworld; equivalent to Greek Persephone, goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation; conflated with earlier Italic Roman deity Libera
    Synonyms: Dēōīs, (Greek counterpart) Persephonē, (Old Italic counterpart) Lībera
  2. (poetic) the Underworld

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Prō̆serpina
genitive Prō̆serpinae
dative Prō̆serpinae
accusative Prō̆serpinam
ablative Prō̆serpinā
vocative Prō̆serpina

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Further reading

  • “Proserpina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Proserpina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Proserpina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1262.
  • Proserpina in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2072
  • “Proserpina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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