Eurydice

Eurydice

Translingual

Eurydice pulchra

Etymology

From Latin Eurydice, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Proper noun

Eurydice f

1. 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 Encyclopedia of Life
• Eurydice at National Center for Biotechnology Information

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English

Etymology

From Latin Eurydice, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹɪdɪsi/

Proper noun

Eurydice

1. (Greek mythology) A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
2. (Greek mythology) The name of various figures in Greek mythology.
3. (astronomy) 75 Eurydike, a main belt asteroid.
4. (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

Basque: Euridize Belarusian: Эўрыдыка f (Eŭrydyka) Catalan: Eurídice f Danish: Eurydike Esperanto: Eŭridico French: Eurydice (fr) f Georgian: ევრიდიკე (evridiḳe) German: Eurydike f Central Franconian: Eurydice (Kölsch) Greek: Ευρυδίκη (el) f (Evrydíki) Ancient: Εὐρυδίκη f (Eurudíkē) Greenlandic: Eurydike Hungarian: (in classical Greek context) Eurüdiké, (in music/dance context) Euridiké (hu) Inuktitut: ᐃᐅᕆᑎᑭ (iuritiki) Irish: Eoraidícé f Italian: Euridice f Japanese: エウリュディケー (Euryudikē) Latin: Eurydice f Middle English: Heurodis Polish: Eurydyka f Portuguese: Eurídice (pt) f Russian: Эвриди́ка (ru) m (Evridíka) Serbo-Croatian: Euridika (sh) f, Еуридика f Spanish: Eurídice f Swedish: Eurydike Ukrainian: Евріді́ка f (Evridíka)

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈry.di.keː/, [ɛu̯ˈrʏd̪ɪkeː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈri.di.t͡ʃe/, [eu̯ˈriːd̪it͡ʃe]

Proper noun

Eurydicē f sg (genitive Eurydicēs); first declension

1. a female given name

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Eurydicē
Genitive	Eurydicēs
Dative	Eurydicae
Accusative	Eurydicēn
Ablative	Eurydicē
Vocative	Eurydicē

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

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Eurydice f

1. Obsolete spelling of Eurídice (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).