Νίτωκρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian nt-jqrt; as a name for a pharaoh, this seems to have originated as an error for nṯrj-kꜣ-rꜥ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ní.tɔː.kris/ → /ˈni.to.kris/ → /ˈni.to.kris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ní.tɔː.kris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈni.to.kris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.to.kris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.to.kris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.to.kris/

Proper noun

Νίτωκρῐς • (Nítōkris) f (genitive Νιτώκρεως); third declension

1. Nitocris

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νίτωκρῐς; τῆς Νιτώκρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νίτωκρῐς hē Nítōkris
Genitive	τῆς Νιτώκρεως tês Nitṓkreōs
Dative	τῇ Νιτώκρει têi Nitṓkrei
Accusative	τὴν Νίτωκρῐν tḕn Nítōkrin
Vocative	Νίτωκρῐ Nítōkri
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Νίτωκρις (Nítokris)
• Latin: Nitōcris

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
• Ryholt, Kim (2000) “The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris” in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache, vol. 127, pp. 87–100