Iphigenia

== English == === Alternative forms === Iphigeneia === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φιγένεια (Īphigéneia). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɪfɪd͡ʒɪˈnaɪə/, /ˌɪfɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪə/ Rhymes: -aɪə === Proper noun === Iphigenia (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphĭgéneiă). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [iː.pʰɪ.ɡɛˈniː.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.fi.d͡ʒeˈniː.a] === Proper noun === Īphigenīa f sg (genitive Īphigenīae); first declension Iphigenia (a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who, because her father had killed, in Aulis, a hart belonging to Artemis, was to be offered up by way of expiation; but the goddess put a hart in her place and conveyed her to the Tauric Chersonese, where she became a priestess of Artemis, and with her brother Orestes carried off Artemis’s image) (Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Gaius Julius Hyginus to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Propertius to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Juvenal to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Cato the Elder to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Gellius to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Rhetorica ad Herennium to this entry?) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. Greek type accusative in -an. === References === “Īphĭgĕnīa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Īphĭgĕnīa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 855/3. “Īphigenīa” on page 964/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) === Further reading === Iphigenia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la