Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πεῤῥέφαττα ‎(Perrhéphatta) (Plato)
• Περσεφόνεια ‎(Persephóneia) (Homeric Hymns)
• Περσέφαττα ‎(Perséphatta) (verse)
• Προσερπίνα ‎(Proserpína) (Magna Graecia)
• Προσερπίνη ‎(Proserpínē) (Magna Graecia)
• Φερέπαφα ‎(Pherépapha) (Plato, Cratylus)
• Φερσέφαττα ‎(Pherséphatta) (archaic and verse)

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • ‎(Persephónē) f ‎(genitive Περσεφόνης); first declension

1. Persephone; Proserpina

Inflection

Descendants

• Bengali: পার্সিফোন ‎(parsiphon)
• Breton: Persefone
• Bulgarian: Персефона ‎(Persefona)
• Catalan: Persèfone
• Czech: Persefona
• Danish: Persefone
• Dutch: Persephone
• English: Persephone
• Finnish: Persefone
• French: Perséphone
• German: Persephone
• Greek: Περσεφόνη ‎(Persefóni)
• Hebrew: פרספונה ‎(Persefone)
• Hindi: पर्सिफ़ोनी ‎(parsifonī)
• Hungarian: Perszephoné
• Italian: Persefone
• Japanese: ペルセポネー ‎(Peruseponē)
• Korean: 페르세포네 (pereusepone)
• Latin: Persephone
• Lithuanian: Persefonė
• Luxembourgish: Persephone
• Norwegian: Persephone
• Polish: Persefona
• Portuguese: Perséfone
• Romanian: Persefona
• Russian: Персефона ‎(Persefona)
• Serbo-Croatian: Персефона/Persefona
• Spanish: Perséfone
• Swedish: Persefone
• Turkish: Persephone
• Ukrainian: Персефона ‎(Persefona)

References

• Περσεφόνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Περσεφόνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Περσεφόνη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη ‎(Persephónē)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛrsɛˈfɔni/

Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • ‎(Persefóni) f

1. (Greek mythology) Persephone
2. female given name