Cleopatra
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English Cleopatra, from Latin Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Cleopatra (plural Cleopatras)
- A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.
- (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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Translations
a given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty
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Noun
Cleopatra (plural Cleopatras)
- A woman of great seductive beauty.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
- Inanna becomes the archetype for all the Cleopatras to come; she is "the bitch goddess" who from her first appearance in Sumerian civilization will live on in all other civilizations - in myth and legend, novel and poem, Shakespearean play and Hollywood film.
- A variety of apple.
- The Cleopatra butterfly (Gonepteryx cleopatra).
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kle.oˈpa.tra/
- Rhymes: -atra
- Hyphenation: Cle‧o‧pà‧tra
Proper noun
Cleopatra f
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɫeˈɔ.pa.tra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kleˈɔː.pa.t̪ra]
Proper noun
Cleopatra f (genitive Cleopatrae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Cleopatra |
genitive | Cleopatrae |
dative | Cleopatrae |
accusative | Cleopatram |
ablative | Cleopatrā |
vocative | Cleopatra |
References
- Cleopatra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kleoˈpatɾa/ [kle.oˈpa.t̪ɾa]
- Rhymes: -atɾa
- Syllabification: Cle‧o‧pa‧tra
Proper noun
Cleopatra f
- Cleopatra (a given name of women in the Ptolemy dynasty)