Eurydice

Translingual

Eurydice pulchra

Etymology

From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Proper noun

Eurydice f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cirolanidae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Peracarida - superorder; Isopoda - order; Cymothoida - suborder; Cirolanoidea - superfamily; Cirolanidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Eurydice pulchra - type species; for other species see Eurydice at World Register of Marine Species .

References

• Eurydice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eurydice on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eurydice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Eurydice at World Register of Marine Species
• Eurydice at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Eurydice at National Center for Biotechnology Information

English

Etymology

From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹɪdɪsi/

Proper noun

Eurydice

1. (Greek mythology) A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
2. (Greek mythology) The name of various figures in Greek mythology.
3. (astronomy) 75 Eurydike, a main belt asteroid.
4. (rare) A female given name
   • 2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:

     That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.

Translations

mythology

• Basque: Euridize
• Belarusian: Эўрыдыка f (Eŭrydyka)
• Catalan: Eurídice f
• Danish: Eurydike
• Esperanto: Eŭridico
• French: Eurydice (fr) f
• Georgian: ევრიდიკე (evridiḳe)
• German: Eurydike f

  Central Franconian: Eurydice (Kölsch)

• Greek: Ευρυδίκη (el) f (Evrydíki)

  Ancient: Εὐρυδίκη f (Eurudíkē)

• Greenlandic: Eurydike
• Hungarian: (in classical Greek context) Eurüdiké, (in music/dance context) Euridiké (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᐃᐅᕆᑎᑭ (ioritiki)
• Irish: Eoraidícé f
• Italian: Euridice f
• Japanese: エウリュディケー (Euryudikē)
• Latin: Eurydice f
• Middle English: Heurodis
• Polish: Eurydyka f
• Portuguese: Eurídice (pt) f
• Russian: Эвриди́ка (ru) m (Evridíka)
• Serbo-Croatian: Euridika (sh) f, Еуридика f
• Spanish: Eurídice f
• Swedish: Eurydike
• Ukrainian: Евріді́ка f (Evridíka)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈry.di.keː/, [ɛu̯ˈrʏd̪ɪkeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈri.di.t͡ʃe/, [eu̯ˈriːd̪it͡ʃe]

Proper noun

Eurydicē f sg (genitive Eurydicēs); first declension

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Eurydicē
Genitive	Eurydicēs
Dative	Eurydicae
Accusative	Eurydicēn
Ablative	Eurydicē
Vocative	Eurydicē

Descendants

• → English: Eurydice
• → Italian: Euridice
• → Portuguese: Eurídice
• → Spanish: Eurídice

References

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

Portuguese

Proper noun

Eurydice f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Eurídice.