Νίτωκρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian



(nt-jqr.t(j)); as a name for a pharaoh, this seems to have originated as an error for
(nṯrj-kꜣ-rꜥ).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Νίτωκρῐς • (Nítōkrĭs) f (genitive Νιτώκρεως); third declension

  1. Nitocris

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νίτωκρῐς; τῆς Νιτώκρεως (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Νίτωκρῐς
hē Nítōkrĭs
Genitive τῆς Νιτώκρεως
tês Nitṓkreōs
Dative τῇ Νιτώκρει
tēî Nitṓkrei
Accusative τὴν Νίτωκρῐν
tḕn Nítōkrĭn
Vocative Νίτωκρῐ
Nítōkrĭ
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Νίτωκρις (Nítokris)
  • Latin: Nitōcris

References

  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
  • Ryholt, Kim (2000) “The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris” in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache, vol. 127, pp. 87–100
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