Persephone

See also Perséphone

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /pəˈsɛfəniː/
• (US) IPA: /pɚˈsɛfəniː/

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Proper noun

Triptolemus and Persephone (1)

Persephone

1. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, wife of Hades. After being abducted by Hades, she lives in the Underworld for six months and with Demeter for the rest of the year.
2. (rare) A female given name.

Translations

Greek goddess

Bengali: পার্সিফোন (bn) Bosnian: Perzefona (bs) f. Breton: Persefone (br) Bulgarian: Персефона (bg) (Persefona) f. Catalan: Persèfone (ca) f. Chinese: 珀耳塞福涅 (cmn) Croatian: Perzefona (hr) f. Czech: Persefona (cs) f. Danish: Persefone (da) Dutch: Persephone (nl) Esperanto: Persefono (eo) Finnish: Persefone (fi) French: Perséphone (fr) f. German: Persephone (de) Greek: Περσεφόνη (el) (Persefóni) f. Hebrew: פרספונה (he) Hindi: पर्सिफ़ोनी (hi) Hungarian: Perszephoné (hu)

Italian: Persefone (it) Japanese: ペルセポネー (ja) (Peruseponē) Korean: 페르세포네 (ko) Latvian: Persefone (lv) Lithuanian: Persefonė (lt) f. Luxembourgish: Persephone (lb) Norwegian: Persephone (no) Polish: Persefona (pl) f. Portuguese: Perséfone (pt) f. Romanian: Persefona (ro) f. Russian: Персефона (ru) (Persefona) f. Serbian: Персефона (sr) (Persefona) f. Slovak: Persefona (sk) f. Spanish: Perséfone (es) f. Swedish: Persefone (sv) Thai: เพอร์ซิโฟเน (th) Turkish: Persephone (tr) Ukrainian: Персефона (uk) (Persefona) f.

female given name

Greek: Περσεφόνη (el) (Persefóni) f.