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語源

From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'grain-thresher' or 'She-who-threshes-the-grain'.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /prəʊˈsɜːpɪnə/
• (General American) IPA: /proʊˈsɝpɪnə/

固有名詞

Proserpina

1. (Roman mythology) The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld and the wife of Pluto; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

   Alternative form: Proserpine

   • 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hymn to Proserpine”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 84:

     Thou art more than the Gods who number the days of our temporal breath; / For these give labour and slumber; but thou, Proserpina, death.

2. (astronomy) 26 Proserpina, a main-belt asteroid.
3. (astrology) A fictitious planet beyond Pluto.

同意語

• (astronomy): 26 Proserpina, ㉖
• (astrology): ⯘

アナグラム

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発音

• Prō̆serpina: (Classical Latin) IPA: [proːˈsɛr.pɪ.na], [prɔˈsɛr.pɪ.na]
• Prō̆serpina: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [proˈs̬ɛr.pi.na]

固有名詞

Prōserpina or Proserpina f sg (genitive Prōserpinae or Proserpinae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) Proserpina or Proserpine, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; wife of Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers in Sicily, and carried her to Hades to be queen of the Underworld; equivalent to Greek Persephone, goddess of the seasons and spring vegetation; conflated with earlier Italic Roman deity Libera

   Synonyms: Dēōīs, (Greek counterpart) Persephonē, (Old Italic counterpart) Lībera

2. (poetic) the Underworld

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

Further reading

• “Proserpina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Proserpina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Proserpina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1262.
• Proserpina in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2072
• “Proserpina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers