# Proserpina
## English
### Etymology

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 'corn-thresher'.

### Proper noun

Proserpina
* (Roman mythology) The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.
* (astronomy) 26 Proserpina, the asteroid.
* (astrology) A fictitious planet beyond Pluto.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* rosin paper

## Italian
### Etymology

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 'corn-thresher'.

### Proper noun

Proserpina f
* (Roman mythology) Proserpina or Proserpine

## Latin
### Etymology

From a form of 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 'corn-thresher'.

### Pronunciation

* Prō̆serpina: (Classical Latin) IPA: /proːˈser.pi.na/, [proːˈs̠ɛrpɪnä] or IPA: /proˈser.pi.na/, [prɔˈs̠ɛrpɪnä]
* Prō̆serpina: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /proˈser.pi.na/, [proˈs̬ɛrpinä]

### Proper noun

Prōserpina or Proserpina f sg (genitive Prōserpinae or Proserpinae); first declension
* (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
* (poetic) the Underworld

#### Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

#### Descendants

* → Greek: Προσερπίνα (Proserpína)
* → Arabic: بروسربينا
* → Basque: Proserpina
* → Belarusian: Празерпіна (Prazjerpina)
* Catalan: Prosèrpina
* Corsican: Pruserpina
* → Danish: Proserpina
* → Dutch: Proserpina
* → English: Proserpina
* → Estonian: Proserpina
* → Finnish: Proserpina
* French: Proserpine
** →⇒ English: Proserpine
* → German: Proserpina
* Galician: Prosérpina
* → Hebrew: פרוסרפינה
* → Hungarian: Proserpina
* → Icelandic: Próserpína
* Italian: Proserpina
* → Lithuanian: Prozerpina
* → Latvian: Proserpina
* → Norwegian: Proserpina
* Occitan: Proserpina
* Romanian: Proserpina
* Piedmontese: Proserpin-a
* → Polish: Prozerpina
* Portuguese: Prosérpina
* → Russian: Прозерпи́на (Prozerpína)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Prozerpina, Прозерпина
* Sardinian: Pruserpina, Pruserpina
* Sicilian: Prusèrpina, Prusirpina
* Spanish: Proserpina
* → Swedish: Proserpina
* ⇒ Translingual: Proserpinus
* → Ukrainian: Прозерпі́на (Prozerpína)

### 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