Πρόκνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”), used to refer to eagles, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.knɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.kni/
Proper noun
Πρόκνη • (Próknē) f (genitive Πρόκνης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Procne
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Πρόκνη; τῆς Πρόκνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Πρόκνη hē Próknē | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Πρόκνης tês Próknēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Πρόκνῃ têi Próknēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Πρόκνην tḕn Próknēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πρόκνη Próknē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Πρόκνη (Prókni)
- Latin: Procne
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN