Penelope
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).
Proper noun
Penelope f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae - infraclass; Galloanseri - superorder; Galliformes - order; Craci - suborder; Cracidae - family; Penelopinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Penelope albipennis (white-winged guan), Penelope argyrotis (band-tailed guan), Penelope barbata (bearded guan), Penelope dabbenei (red-faced guan), Penelope jacquacu (Spix's guan), Penelope jacucaca (white-browed guan), Penelope marail (Marail guan), Penelope montagnii (Andean guan), Penelope obscura (dusky-legged guan), Penelope ochrogaster (chestnut-bellied guan), Penelope ortoni (Baudo guan), Penelope perspicax (Cauca guan), Penelope pileata (white-crested guan), Penelope purpurascens (crested guan), Penelope superciliaris (rusty-margined guan(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Derived terms
References
- Penelope (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Penelope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Penelope (bird) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Penelope
- (Greek mythology) The faithful wife of Odysseus.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- 1967 Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins (2014), →ISBN, page 194:
- "She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
- "Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."
- 2004 Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf (2004), page 93:
- "What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."
- 1967 Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins (2014), →ISBN, page 194:
- A town in Texas.
Usage notes
- Popular given name in the U.K. in the 1950s and the 1960s.
Derived terms
Translations
wife of Odysseus
female given name
References
- Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.
Italian
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Penelope f
- (Greek mythology) Penelope
- a female given name
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /peːˈne.lo.peː/, [peːˈnɛɫ̪ɔpeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈne.lo.pe/, [peˈnɛːlope]
Proper noun
Pēnelopē f sg (genitive Pēnelopēs); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Pēnelopē |
Genitive | Pēnelopēs |
Dative | Pēnelopae |
Accusative | Pēnelopēn |
Ablative | Pēnelopē |
Vocative | Pēnelopē |
References
- “Penelope”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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