Εὐφροσύνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The personified εὐφροσύνη (euphrosúnē, “mirth, merriment”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eu̯.pʰro.sý.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eʍ.pʰroˈsy.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eɸ.ɸroˈsy.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ef.froˈsy.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ef.froˈsi.ni/
Proper noun
Εὐφροσύνη • (Euphrosúnē) f (genitive Εὐφροσύνης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Euphrosyne (one of the Charites)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Εὐφροσῠ́νη hē Euphrosŭ́nē | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Εὐφροσῠ́νης tês Euphrosŭ́nēs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Εὐφροσῠ́νῃ tēî Euphrosŭ́nēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Εὐφροσῠ́νην tḕn Euphrosŭ́nēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Εὐφροσῠ́νη Euphrosŭ́nē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: Ευφροσύνη (Effrosýni)
- → Catalan: Eufròsine
- → English: Euphrosyne
- → Finnish: Eufrosyne
- → German: Euphrosyne
- → Hungarian: Fruzsina
- → Italian: Eufrosine
- → Latin: Euphrosynē
- → Polish: Eufrozyna
- → Portuguese: Eufrósine
- → Russian: Ефроси́ния (Jefrosínija)
- → Spanish: Eufrósine
- Translingual: Euphrosyne
Further reading
- Εὐφροσύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Εὐφροσύνη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011