Περσεφόνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Περρέφαττα (Perrhéphatta) (Plato)
Περσεφόνεια (Persephóneia) (Homeric Hymns)
Περσέφαττα (Perséphatta) (verse)
Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) (Magna Graecia)
Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē) (Magna Graecia)
Φερέπαφα (Pherépapha) (Plato, Cratylus)
Φερσέφαττα (Pherséphatta) (archaic and verse)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /per.se.pʰó.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛr.sɛˈpʰo.ne/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /per.seˈɸo.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /per.seˈfo.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /per.seˈfo.ni/

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persephónē) f (genitive Περσεφόνης); first declension

Persephone; Proserpina

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Περσεφόνη; τῆς Περσεφόνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Περσεφόνη hē Persephónē
Genitive	τῆς Περσεφόνης tês Persephónēs
Dative	τῇ Περσεφόνῃ têi Persephónēi
Accusative	τὴν Περσεφόνην tḕn Persephónēn
Vocative	Περσεφόνη Persephónē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Bengali: পার্সিফোন (parsiphon)
Breton: Persefone
Bulgarian: Персефона (Persefona)
Catalan: Persèfone
Czech: Persefona
Danish: Persefone
Dutch: Persephone
English: Persephone
Finnish: Persefone
French: Perséphone
German: Persephone
Greek: Περσεφόνη (Persefóni)
Hebrew: פרספונה‎ (Persefone)
Hindi: पर्सिफ़ोनी (parsifonī)
Hungarian: Perszephoné
Italian: Persefone
Japanese: ペルセポネー (Peruseponē)
Korean: 페르세포네 (pereusepone)
Latin: Persephone
Lithuanian: Persefonė
Luxembourgish: Persephone
Norwegian: Persephone
Polish: Persefona
Portuguese: Perséfone
Romanian: Persefona
Russian: Персефона (Persefona)
Serbo-Croatian: Персефона/Persefona
Spanish: Perséfone
Swedish: Persefone
Turkish: Persephone
Ukrainian: Персефона (Persefona)

Further reading

Περσεφόνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Περσεφόνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Περσεφόνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɛrsɛˈfɔni/

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persefóni) f

(Greek mythology) Persephone
female given name

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