Ἰφιγένεια
See also: Ἰφιγενεία
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ (Īphigeneíā) — Lyric
Etymology
editFrom ἶφι (îphi, “by force or might”, Epic adverb) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “come into being”) + -ειᾰ (-eia). See also Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡé.neː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /i.pʰiˈɡe.ni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.ɸiˈʝe.ni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.fiˈʝe.ni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.fiˈʝe.ni.a/
Proper noun
editῙ̓φῐγένειᾰ • (Īphigéneia) f (genitive Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς); first declension
- strong-born, mighty (an epithet of Artemis)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pausanias to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hesychius of Alexandria to this entry?)
- (Greek mythology) Iphigenia (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Stesichorus to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pindar to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sophocles to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lycophron to this entry?)
- 458 BC, Aeschylus (aut.), H.W. Smyth (ed., tr.), Ἀγαμέμνων in Aeschylus…in two volumes II: Agamemnon (1926), ll. 1,521–1,530:
- οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον // τῷδε γενέσθαι. // οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην // οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽; // ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθέν. // τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν, // ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων // μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, // ξιφοδηλήτῳ, // θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.
- [Neither do I think he met an ignoble death.] And did he not himself by treachery bring ruin on his house? Yet, as he has suffered — worthy prize of worthy deed — for what he did to my sweet flower, shoot sprung from him, the sore-wept Iphigenia, let him make no great boasts in the halls of Hades, since with death dealt him by the sword he has paid for what he first began. ― tr. ibidem
- οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον // τῷδε γενέσθαι. // οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην // οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽; // ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθέν. // τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν, // ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων // μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, // ξιφοδηλήτῳ, // θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ hē Īphigéneia | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς tês Īphigeneíās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾳ têi Īphigeneíāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰν tḕn Īphigéneian | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ Īphigéneia | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms
edit- (Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra): Ἰφιάνασσα (Iphiánassa) (Homeric), Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē), Ἶφις (Îphis)
Descendants
edit- Greek: Ιφιγένεια (Ifigéneia)
- → Armenian: Իփիգենիա (Ipʻigenia)
- → Latin: Īphigenīa
- → Old Armenian: Իփիւգենիա (Ipʻiwgenia)
References
edit- “ἰφῐγένειᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἰφιγένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἰφιγένεια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
Further reading
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- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns
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