Persephone

Persephone

See also: Persephonë and Perséphone

English

Alternative forms

• Persephonë

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛfəni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛfəniː/

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Proper noun

Triptolemus and Persephone (1)

Persephone

1. (Greek mythology) A minor deity, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and vegetation. Originally named Kore/Core, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades. Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina.
2. (astronomy) 399 Persephone, a main belt asteroid.
3. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 2008, Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate, Transit Lounge Publishing (2011), →ISBN (e-book), chapter 23, 376:

     ‘My name is Persephone’ she says, ‘but in England everyone calls me Seph.’

4. (science fiction) The tenth planet, orbiting beyond Pluto.

Translations

Greek goddess

Bengali: পার্সিফোন (parsiphon) Breton: Persefone Bulgarian: Персефона f (Persefona) Catalan: Persèfone f Chinese: Mandarin: 珀耳塞福涅 (Pò'ěrsāifúniè) Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣⲥⲉⲫⲟⲛⲏ (persephonē) Czech: Persefona f Danish: Persefone Dutch: Persephone Esperanto: Persefono Finnish: Persefone French: Perséphone (fr) f German: Persephone (de) Greek: Περσεφόνη (el) f (Persefóni) Ancient: Περσεφόνη f (Persephónē) Hebrew: פרספונה‎ Hindi: पर्सिफ़ोनी (parsifonī) Hungarian: Perszephoné (hu) Irish: Peirsifiné f, Peirséifiné f Italian: Persefone Japanese: ペルセポネー (Peruseponē) Korean: 페르세포네 (ko) (pereusepone) Latin: Persephonē f Latvian: Persefone Lithuanian: Persefonė f Luxembourgish: Persephone Marathi: पर्सेफनी f (parsephnī) Norwegian: Persephone Polish: Persefona (pl) f Portuguese: Perséfone (pt) f Romanian: Persefona f Russian: Персефо́на (ru) f (Persefóna) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Персефона f Roman: Perzefona (sh) f Slovak: Persefona f Spanish: Perséfone f Swedish: Persefone Thai: เพอร์ซิโฟเน Turkish: Persephone Ukrainian: Персефо́на f (Persefóna)

female given name

Greek: Περσεφόνη (el) f (Persefóni) Marathi: पर्सेफनी f (parsephnī)

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /perˈse.pʰo.neː/, [pɛrˈs̠ɛpʰɔneː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /perˈse.fo.ne/, [perˈsɛːfone]

Proper noun

Persephonē f sg (genitive Persephonēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Persephone (Greek goddess)
2. (transferred sense) Death (personified)

Declension

• The regularized genitive Persephonae occurs in later Latin.

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Persephonē
Genitive	Persephonēs
Dative	Persephonae
Accusative	Persephonēn
Ablative	Persephonē
Vocative	Persephonē

Synonyms

• (Persephone [Greek goddess]): Prōserpina (Roman counterpart)

References

• “Persĕphŏnē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Persephone”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Persĕphŏnē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,159/1
• “Persephonē” on page 1,354/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Persephone f

1. Archaic spelling of Perséfone.