Κίρκη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κίρκος (kírkos, “falcon”). Compare Old Norse gýgr (“ogress, witch”) and Icelandic gýgur (“troll-woman, ogress”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kír.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkir.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcir.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcir.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcir.ci/
Proper noun
Κίρκη • (Kírkē) f (genitive Κίρκης); first declension
- Circe, a name, particularly the sorceress who appears in Homer's Odyssey.
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Κίρκη; τῆς Κίρκης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Κίρκη hē Kírkē | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Κίρκης tês Kírkēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Κίρκῃ têi Kírkēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Κίρκην tḕn Kírkēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Κίρκη Kírkē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Κίρκη (Kírki)
- → Latin: Circē, Circā
- → Catalan: Circe
- → English: Circe
- → French: Circé
- → Italian: Circe
- → Sicilian: Circi
- → Spanish: Circe
Further reading
- “Κίρκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κίρκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Κίρκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006