Hecuba

• Hecabe, Hekabe

From Latin Hecuba, from Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛkjʊbə/

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Hecuba

1. (Greek mythology) the wife of King Priam of Troy, the mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra

From Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɛ.kʊ.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.ku.ba]

Hecuba f sg (genitive Hecubae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) The wife of Priamus who changed through rage into a dog
2. An ugly old woman

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Hecuba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hecuba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.