Ἑκάτη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ἑκᾰ́τᾱ (Hekátā)

Etymology

From an Anatolian language. Often incorrectly derived from ἑκάς (hekás, “far away”) (compare ἑκάεργος (hekáergos, “far working”), an epithet of Apollo).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.ká.tɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛˈka.te/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈka.ti/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈka.ti/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈka.ti/

Proper noun

Ἑκᾰ́τη • (Hekátē) f (genitive Ἑκᾰ́της); first declension

(Greek mythology) Hecate

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἑκᾰ́τη; τῆς Ἑκᾰ́της (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἑκᾰ́τη hē Hekátē
Genitive	τῆς Ἑκᾰ́της tês Hekátēs
Dative	τῇ Ἑκᾰ́τῃ têi Hekátēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἑκᾰ́την tḕn Hekátēn
Vocative	Ἑκᾰ́τη Hekátē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἑκᾰτεῖον (Hekateîon)
Ἑκᾰταῖος (Hekataîos)
Ἑκᾰ́της δεῖπνον (Hekátēs deîpnon, “Hekate's dinner”)
Ἑκᾰταῖᾰ κᾰτεσθίειν (Hekataîa katesthíein, “rapscallion”)

Descendants

English: Hecate
Greek: Εκάτη (Ekáti)
Latin: Hecate

References

Ἑκάτη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Ἑκάτη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ἑκάτη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012
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

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