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語源

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdæfni/

固有名詞

Daphne

1. (Greek mythology) A dryad pursued by Apollo, who was turned into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Run when you will, the story shall be chang'd; / Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; / The dove pursues the griffin

2. (astronomy) 41 Daphne, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1989, John Banville, The Book of Evidence, page 7:

     My wife. Daphne. Yes, that was, is, her name. For some reason people have always found it faintly comic. I think it matches very well her damp, dark, myopic beauty.

同意語

• (astronomy): 41 Daphne, ㊶

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel, bay”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdapʰ.neː/, [ˈd̪äpʰneː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdaf.ne/, [ˈd̪äfne]

固有名詞

Daphnē f sg (genitive Daphnēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Daphne

語形変化

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