Ἰφιγένεια

See also: Ἰφιγενεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱ (Īphigeneíā) — Lyric

Etymology

From ἶφι (îphi, “by force or might”, Epic adverb) +‎ γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “come into being”) +‎ -ειᾰ (-eia). See also Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡé.neː.a/ → /i.ɸiˈʝe.ni.a/ → /i.fiˈʝe.ni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.pʰi.ɡé.neː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.pʰiˈɡe.ni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.ɸiˈʝe.ni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.fiˈʝe.ni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.fiˈʝe.ni.a/

Proper noun

Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ • (Īphigéneia) f (genitive Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς); first declension

1. strong-born, mighty (an epithet of Artemis)

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2. (Greek mythology) Iphigenia (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra)

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   • 458 BC, Aeschylus (aut.), H.W. Smyth (ed., tr.), Ἀγαμέμνων in Aeschylus…in two volumes II: Agamemnon (1926), ll. 1,521–1,530:

     οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον // τῷδε γενέσθαι. // οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην // οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽; // ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθέν. // τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν, // ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων // μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, // ξιφοδηλήτῳ, // θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.

     [Neither do I think he met an ignoble death.] And did he not himself by treachery bring ruin on his house? Yet, as he has suffered — worthy prize of worthy deed — for what he did to my sweet flower, shoot sprung from him, the sore-wept Iphigenia, let him make no great boasts in the halls of Hades, since with death dealt him by the sword he has paid for what he first began. ― tr. ibidem

Declension

First declension of ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ; τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ hē Īphigéneia
Genitive	τῆς Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς tês Īphigeneíās
Dative	τῇ Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾳ têi Īphigeneíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰν tḕn Īphigéneian
Vocative	Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ Īphigéneia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra): Ἰφιάνασσα (Iphiánassa) (Homeric), Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē), Ἶφις (Îphis)

Descendants

• Greek: Ιφιγένεια (Ifigéneia)
• → Armenian: Իփիգենիա (Ipʻigenia)
• → Latin: Īphigenīa
• → Old Armenian: Իփիւգենիա (Ipʻiwgenia)

References

• “ἰφῐγένειᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἰφιγένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ἰφιγένεια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

Further reading

• Iphigenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia