Περσεφόνη

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Ancient Greek

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Persephone

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Proserpina

Alternative forms

Περρέφαττα (Perrhéphatta) — Plato
Περσεφόνεια (Persephóneia) — Homeric Hymns
Περσέφαττα (Perséphatta) — verse
Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) — Magna Graecia
Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē) — Magna Graecia
Φερέπαφα (Pherépapha) — Plato, Cratylus
Φερσέφαττα (Pherséphatta) — archaic, verse

Etymology

Possibly composed of the Proto-Indo-European elements *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”, whence also Sanskrit पर्ष (parṣá-) and perhaps Latin porrum) +‎ *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike down, slay”, compare φόνος (phónos, “killer”)) +‎ *-eh₂ (a suffix of feminine agent nouns), thus originally meaning “female thresher of corn”.^[1] Compare Rigvedic पर्षान् हन्ति (parṣā́n hanti, “to thresh ears of corn”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *pers-é-bʰ(h₂)n̥t-ih₂ (“she who brings the light through”), akin to Albanian Prenda.^[2]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /per.se.pʰó.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /per.seˈpʰo.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /per.seˈɸo.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /per.seˈfo.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /per.seˈfo.ni/

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persephónē) f (genitive Περσεφόνης); first declension

Persephone; Proserpina

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Περσεφόνη; τῆς Περσεφόνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Περσεφόνη hē Persephónē
Genitive	τῆς Περσεφόνης tês Persephónēs
Dative	τῇ Περσεφόνῃ têi Persephónēi
Accusative	τὴν Περσεφόνην tḕn Persephónēn
Vocative	Περσεφόνη Persephónē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Bengali: পার্সিফোন (parśiphōn)
→ Breton: Persefone
→ Bulgarian: Персефона (Persefona)
→ Catalan: Persèfone
→ Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣⲥⲉⲫⲟⲛⲏ (persephonē)
→ Czech: Persefona
→ Danish: Persefone
→ Dutch: Persephone
→ English: Persephone
→ Finnish: Persefone
→ French: Perséphone
→ German: Persephone
Greek: Περσεφόνη (Persefóni)
→ Hebrew: פרספונה (Persefone)
→ Hindi: पर्सिफ़ोनी (parsifonī)
→ Hungarian: Perszephoné
→ Italian: Persefone
→ Japanese: ペルセポネー (Peruseponē)
→ Korean: 페르세포네 (Pereusepone)
→ Latin: Persephone
→ Lithuanian: Persefonė
→ Luxembourgish: Persephone
→ Norwegian: Persephone
→ Polish: Persefona
→ Portuguese: Perséfone
→ Romanian: Persefona
→ Russian: Персефо́на (Persefóna)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Персефона/Persefona
→ Sicilian: Pirsèfuni
→ Spanish: Perséfone
→ Swedish: Persefone
→ Turkish: Persephone
→ Ukrainian: Персефо́на (Persefóna)

Further reading

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Περσεφόνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1179–1180
^ Hyllested, A., & Joseph, B. (2022). Albanian. In T. Olander (Ed.), The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective (pp. 223-245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108758666.013

“Περσεφόνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Περσεφόνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Περσεφόνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /perseˈfoni/

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persefóni) f

(Greek mythology) Persephone
a female given name

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