# Περσεφόνη
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Possibly composed of the Proto-Indo-European elements *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”, whence also Sanskrit पर्ष (parṣá-) and perhaps Latin porrum) +‎ *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike down, slay”, compare φόνος (phónos, “killer”)) +‎ *-eh₂ (a suffix of feminine agent nouns), thus originally meaning “female thresher of corn”. Compare Rigvedic पर्षान् हन्ति (parṣā́n hanti, “to thresh ears of corn”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *pers-é-bʰ(h₂)n̥t-ih₂ (“she who brings the light through”), akin to Albanian Prenda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /per.se.pʰó.nɛː/ → /per.seˈɸo.ni/ → /per.seˈfo.ni/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /per.se.pʰó.nɛː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /per.seˈpʰo.ne̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /per.seˈɸo.ni/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /per.seˈfo.ni/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /per.seˈfo.ni/

### Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persephónē) f (genitive Περσεφόνης); first declension
* Persephone; Proserpina

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: পার্সিফোন (parśiphōn)
* → Breton: Persefone
* → Bulgarian: Персефона (Persefona)
* → Catalan: Persèfone
* → Coptic: ⲡⲉⲣⲥⲉⲫⲟⲛⲏ (persephonē)
* → 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: Персефо́на (Persefóna)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Персефона/Persefona
* → Sicilian: Pirsèfuni
* → Spanish: Perséfone
* → Swedish: Persefone
* → Turkish: Persephone
* → Ukrainian: Персефо́на (Persefóna)

### Further reading

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Περσεφόνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1179–1180
* ↑ Hyllested, A., & Joseph, B. (2022). Albanian. In T. Olander (Ed.), The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective (pp. 223-245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108758666.013
* “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: /perseˈfoni/

### Proper noun

Περσεφόνη • (Persefóni) f
* (Greek mythology) Persephone
* a female given name