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From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).
Persephone
- (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.
- (astronomy) 399 Persephone, a main belt asteroid.
- (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- (science fiction) The tenth planet, orbiting beyond Pluto.
Greek goddess
- Albanian: Persefonía f
- Bengali: পার্সিফোন (parśiphōn)
- 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:
- Slovak: Persefona f
- Spanish: Perséfone f
- Swedish: Persefone
- Thai: เพอร์ซิโฟเน
- Turkish: Persephone
- Ukrainian: Персефо́на f (Persefóna)
From the Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /perˈse.pʰo.neː/, [pɛrˈs̠ɛpʰɔneː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /perˈse.fo.ne/, [perˈsɛːfone]
Persephonē f sg (genitive Persephonēs); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Persephone (Greek goddess)
- (transferred sense) Death (personified)
- 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 |
- (Persephone [Greek goddess]): Prōserpina (Roman counterpart)
- “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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